Rutgers New Brunswick - Parking

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Ask any Rutgers student what they hate most about the University, and parking is probably in the top five. As part of the popular “RU Screw,” students have to pay heavy fines for parking in areas where they don’t have a permit. Students often complain about the burdens of having a car on campus. One major peeve students living on College Avenue have is that they have to park their cars on the Busch or Livingston campuses and take the bus to class. No student can drive to class legally and park in a lot, unless they have a proper permit. Even commuters have to park in Rutgers Football Stadium lot and take the commuter bus to class.

Some students have been rumored to have gone into debt over Rutgers’s parking tickets, as well as the cost of the permits. The permit to park in Easton Avenue apartment complex deck costs $450 annually. Parking tickets and permit costs make the majority of students leave their cars at home and rely on the Rutgers buses, NJ Transit, and friends to take them around.

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Students Speak Out

RutNB says: Rutgers New Brunswick 2015 Other

Parking is a pain! Out-of-state... Parking is a pain! Out-of-state freshman can have a car. Parking passes are very expensive, and you cannot park in the lots close to your dorm. 12345 Parking: February 25, 2009 Report

Anonymous says:

Parking is a pretty popular thing... Parking is a pretty popular thing to be able to do on campus, so it’s not exactly easy to find parking at times; the commuter scene is pretty popular, so parking sometimes is quite tedious. 12345 Parking Report

Anonymous says:

Parking in New Brunswick is... Parking in New Brunswick is impossible—it’s very frustrating. 12345 Parking Report

Anonymous says:

Parking frustration depends on... Parking frustration depends on which campus you’re on. Livingston is great for parking, Busch is decent, but Cook/Douglass and College Avenue parking can be a nightmare and isn’t allowed for the first two years. 12345 Parking Report

Anonymous says:

My car is in a parking deck... My car is in a parking deck connected to the Easton Avenue Apartments (on campus), which makes it easy for me to go to work, home, or anywhere else, but it also costs $450. 12345 Parking Report

Did You Know?

Good Luck Getting a Parking Spot Here!
It is incredibly hard to park anywhere on the entire College Avenue Campus—even off campus! There is extremely limited parking, and the small amount that is available is primarily given to commuters and faculty. Off-Campus parking is also near impossible. For numerous blocks past College Avenue, resident parking permits are necessary to park on the street. If a student doesn’t have a parking permit and they live on the College Avenue Campus, it may be a better idea to illegally park in another campus’s main lot such as Livingston or Busch, and take the campus bus back to College Avenue. (And even then, it may not prevent a parking ticket!)

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