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Student Parking Lot? Yes
Freshmen Allowed to Park? No
Approximate Parking Permit Cost $720 per year
Common Parking Tickets
  • Brown lots without a permit: $25-$75
  • Expired meter: $10
  • Handicapped zone: $50
  • No parking zone: $15

Student Author OverviewWhat's This?

Do you like your car? Do you have a financial or emotional incentive to keep it in peak condition? Have you become accustomed to convenient and free parking? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you might want to seriously reconsider bringing your car to campus. The cruel winters and even crueler parking cops make street parking a dangerous proposition. If a snowplow doesn’t hit your car, a $10 ticket will. It’s widely known that the Providence city government is funded largely on parking tickets. Having a car, therefore, will probably cost you another $50 a month in parking tickets. It’s not as bad as the big cities, but you will start to get frustrated with the little orange friends you find on your windshield.

Brown parking also leaves a lot to be desired. Upperclassmen are usually able to get a university parking spot in a safe, covered lot, but there are far fewer good spots than students who want them. Most underclassmen are forced to park in a lot that’s so far away it is only accessible by car. Private parking lots are the most popular choice for students, but they come at a high cost. Most students choose not to bring a car until senior year when they can park at an off-campus house or get a good university parking spot.

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Parking at Brown University

shris09

'11

Biology

1.9
C-

Prepare to Get a Ticket!

Parking is awful at brown! No matter how cautious you are, you will get a ticket! Overnight parking is a pain because you have to call in the make you they do not ticket you. Parking permits are too expensive! You do not really need a car on campus because parking is too much of a hassle. It is MUCH EASIER to get a Zipcar membership and use that when necessary.

Jan 02, 2012

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Parking at Brown University

vincentvega166

'14

Philosophy

1.5
D+

Don't Bring a Car.

Parking is bad. Don't bring a car if at all possible. Only bring a car if you have your own place off-campus with a parking space, and that only happens your senior year (and very rarely as a junior). You really don't need a car anyway, generally speaking.

Jul 17, 2011

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iman2010

'14

Social Sciences

1.2
D

Don't Do It

There are very few parking spots, besides the student lot. Streets are narrow, so inexperienced drivers beware.

Jun 21, 2011

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Facts

Getting a Parking Permit

Permits and spaces are handed out through a seniority basis lottery. The lottery is held the second Monday of April for spaces to be given out the following year. Freshmen who bring cars to campus are not given access to the official Brown parking system. Keeping a car is not really feasible for any student, and most will find that it is not necessary.

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Best Places to Find a Parking Spot
There are a few good secret spots in alleys or on un-metered streets, and if you are patient, you can circle the campus a few times and usually find something. The meters are poorly placed and usually broken, so the odds of getting a completely free space are good, but you will have to move your car every two hours. As you get farther from campus, the time limits become more liberal, the spaces more plentiful, and the odds of getting ticketed much lower.

Good Luck Getting a Parking Spot Here
On a rainy or snowy day, don’t even think about trying to drive in and find a spot around campus or on Thayer. On most days, however, the two-hour parking limit keeps cars shuffling and makes the dismal prospect of finding a spot evenly difficult anywhere around campus.

Parking ServicesWhat's This?

Brown University Police and Security
75 Charleslfield St.
(401) 863-3157

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