As one of the most contentious departments on campus, Texas Tech’s Transportation and Parking Services is largely known for being despised by many who get caught parking illegally on campus. But the department operates with millions of dollars, deals with thousands of students and cars on campus each day, and plans for growth years in advance. The following is a five-part series of the issues that make up the transportation on Tech’s campus and how these affect drivers on campus
TTU Parking: By the Numbers Texas Tech University Transportation and Parking Services has issued 135,332 parking citations since January 2012. That’s the equivalent of nearly a ticket per student per semester for the last four semesters.
TTU Parking: Enforcement Using a system that issues nearly 34,000 tickets per semester on Texas Tech’s campus, Transportation and Parking Services has its work cut out when it comes to catching parking violators in any of the nearly 20,000 parking spaces on campus.
TTU Parking: Garages While the seemingly vacant but always sold out Flint Parking Garage may currently be the only garage on the Texas Tech University campus, Texas Tech Transportation and Parking Services has plans to build a second garage in the near future.
TTU Parking: Money Although many students complain about a $25 parking citation, Eric Crouch has bigger numbers on his mind. Among million-dollar projects and operating costs in the hundreds of thousands, Texas Tech’s Transportation and Parking Services’s budget is enough to keep Crouch, the managing director, more than busy.
TTU Parking: The Future Texas Tech University Transportation and Parking Services maintains there is enough commuter parking on campus to support the university’s goal of 40,000 students by 2020, but the potential deficits could be seen in both residence hall and employee parking in the future.
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