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Comparable Schools'
Parking Grades:
Quick StatsStudent Parking Lot
Yes - Chestnut Street Theme House Lot, College Street Lot, Commuter Lot (day parking only; no parking on nights or weekends), Grant Street 1 Lot (faculty and staff only between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m.), Grant Street 2 Lot, Library Lot , Lincoln Lot, and Taylor Lot.
Common Parking Tickets
- Parked in a lot to which you are not assigned - $15
- Parked in the faculty section of a lot during the day - $15
- Tag not displayed properly - $15
Freshmen Allowed to Park
Yes - Freshmen who decide to bring a car to campus will be issued a permit on a space-available basis.
Approximate Parking Permit CostParking Permits
Student parking permits are free. Priority is given to rising seniors, then juniors, then sophomores, and finally freshmen and commuting first-year students based on the order in which they are received. The College can deny any student a parking permit if they have a number of previous parking tickets or if they have any outstanding parking tickets. Permit applications are available online to upperclassmen from the Office of Protection Services. Permits assign a vehicle to a lot, not to a specific space.
College Prowler Take
Might I recommend keeping $45 dollars handy at all times for the parking tickets you will inevitably receive? Sooner or later everyone ends up parking in a row reserved for faculty, or getting caught in a lot not allowed by your tag, or on the president’s lawn—you know, little things like that. I will admit that freshmen are usually the biggest problem for everyone else when it comes to finding spaces in decent lots. No freshman wants to be stuck parking in Taylor Lot (where they are always assigned) because it is as far from the freshman dorms as you can get. So people will sneak into more convenient lots, shutting out people who are tagged for spaces there, and the whole mess just perpetuates itself.
The security guards must have developed a hawk eye for these lot trespassers, because tickets just fly off their pads and onto windshields. Thankfully, they do allow for appeals to citations, and they are not eager to drain what precious few funds we have available. If you live in the Row, good luck keeping a spot in the Tech Center Lot. While it isn’t impossible, someone always seems to come in right after you leave and take your space. Be careful not to drift into the faculty-only rows, too, or else you’ll have a nice paper addition to your wiper blades. I guess the free permits are offset by the ticket fines over the course of the year. Students Speak Out
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Anonymous says:  |
In some lots, a difference of only...
In some lots, a difference of only one space could mean the difference between getting a ticket and not. It makes very little sense. |
Anonymous says: |
For some reason, the Taylor lots...
For some reason, the Taylor lots are divided into two sections, despite the fact that they are essentially one continuous lot. It isn’t clear that they are supposed to be two entirely separate lots, and that’s caused me about $45 in tickets. |
Anonymous says: |
Unless you live way out on...
Unless you live way out on Chestnut Street, it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference where you get assigned. It’s not like you’re ever more than a five-minute walk from your car at the worst. |
Anonymous says: |
Your parking situation really...
Your parking situation really depends on your year. Upperclassmen are generally given tags to park in most of the lots, while underclassmen are restricted to the lots way at the south end of campus. |
Anonymous says: |
I have discovered one immutable...
I have discovered one immutable rule about parking at W&J: No matter how much you follow the rules, you will eventually get a ticket, even if it doesn’t make sense. I’ve gotten tickets that don’t even have an offense marked down, just a fine. |
Parking Services
Office of Protection Services
60 S. Lincoln St.
(724) 223-6032
Did You Know?
Best Places to Find a Parking Spot:
Taylor Lot (because it’s never full) Good Luck Getting a Parking Spot Here:
College Street Lot and the Tech Center Lot
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