Texas A&M University
- Parking

Balance of Pros and Cons

There is plenty of room to park on campus and the pricing is decent however, the lots and garages are inconvieniently located. A majority of parking is located on west campus which is about a 25 minute walk from most buildings that classes are held in. Also there is an extremely excessive amount of tickets given out and cars towed. It is necessary to enforce parking rules but, the way they are enforced on campus makes it seem like they just want to collect as much money as possible.

Limited Parking Spaces

A&M seems to be trying to get as much money from its student as possible, and it seems like they oversell parking spaces. Its a first come first serve deal, so if you wake up late, there's the possibility that there will be no parking spaces left. Also, permits are typically specific to one parking lot.

Really not that bad

Parking has an undeserved reputation I think. You're guaranteed a spot at Reed Arena and there are buses that will take you to places on campus and the main part of campus. I think parking at other colleges is way worse. Particularly any college in a decent sized city. There's always a parking spot on campus somewhere it just might not be too close to where you have to go but there's probably a bus that can take you somewhere close to where you need to go. Parking for sports is better than any other college campus I have been to. At many places you may have to find parking on the local side streets in front of houses but that's never the case here as long as you have some sort of permit. Even a night permit which is less than $100 for the whole year. The rules are fairly clear and it's really not that hard to avoid getting tickets. I've never had a problem with the parking people and if they weren't doing their job patrolling campus then parking would be a mad house.