TECHNICIAN
thursday april
29 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Transportation announces upcoming changes PARKING PERMITS PURCHASE DATES
Changes in parking and Wolfline services for the summer and fall 2010 sessions announced
Summer Permits: • May 3
Chelsey Francis
Fall Permits: • Graduate Students: July 6 • Students with 75 hours or more: July 8 • All other students: July 12
Staff Writer
NCSU Transportation has announced construction plans, changes in Wolfline service and parking permit updates for the fall and summer school sessions. David Gregory, parking services manager for Transportation, said the method of purchasing parking permits changed last year and the changes will remain in place in the upcoming year. Gregory said parking permits are available for purchase through an online system. Permits are sold on a first-come, first-served basis until they are sold out, he said. Fall permits will be mailed to the address the student specifies prior to the start of fall classes. “The best suggestion we can give students is to mark your calendar for when purchasing opens up for you,” Gregory said. “If you aren’t going to have access to Internet, ask someone you trust to take care of it for you. Make sure you take care of getting your parking permit before you get to campus.” Gregory said he encouraged students to look at the chart on the Transportation Web site explaining the different types of permits available before trying to purchase a permit. “The chart is the easiest way for students to make sure they get the permit they need,” Gregory said. Only students who do not currently have a parking permit need to purchase a permit for the summer sessions, Gregory said. These permits are “S” permits, and valid in all student commuter and resident zones. Students that had a parking permit for the 2009-2010 academic year can use the same permit during the summer, Gregory said. However, he said, the zones used during the academic year will not be in effect for the summer. The summer permit will expire Au-
*All permits are available online to purchase
SOURCE: NCSU TRANSPORTATION
AMANDA WILKINS/TECHNICIAN
A car backs out of a parking place late Wednesday. Transportation is amending parking rules to adjust to classes not being in session for the summer.
gust 15, at the same time the permits from the 2009-2010 academic year will expire, Gregory said. Summer permits will not be mailed out; they must be picked up starting May 10, or two business days after purchase. Christine Klein, the public communication specialist for NCSU Transportation, said, “If you already have a permit, you’re fine and don’t need to get a new permit or come to the office. We only have the one permit during the summer. It makes it a lot simpler during the summer. These permits are $80 at the beginning of the summer and pro-rated weekly.” A change will be made to the parking policies on campus, Klein said. Currently, when the University is open, but classes are not in session, there is a “relaxed enforcement.” This will no longer be the case as of May 24. “The relaxed enforcement will change into modified enforcement, for when there are no classes,” Klein said. “The modified enforcement means that no matter what the case is, a person must have a permit to park on campus. Any permit can park anywhere except in the “B” and “C” zones, which are for employees.” Modified enforcement means that
no one parks any time during busi- additional buses for the fall semester, ness hours, which are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Klein said. Currently, the number of without a parking permit. Transpor- additional buses has not been detertation will publish a yearly schedule mined, neither have any of the details for when modified enforcement will about timing. She said Route 2, North be in place. Campus Reverse Shuttle, will be re“We have options for not parking named and reconfigured. on campus, even with this modified It will be called the Hillsborough enforcement,” Klein said. “The pay Shuttle, Klein said, and will connect lots operate from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Wolf Village to Hillsborough Street, Monday through Friday. The Carter by way of Dan Allen Drive and FoundFinley Park & Ride ers Street. The shuttle is still in effect will turn around and for the summer. reverse the route, she CAT buses come said, at the roundthrough campus. about on Pullen Road. We also have pay “We encourage Wolf lots.” Village residents to For the fall 2010 look at this route as an semester, K lein option,” Klein said. “It said, there will be a will help decrease the few changes to the crowding on Route 7.” Wolfline service. There will be a deChristine Klein, public “We try to run creased number of communication specialist the Wolfline buses parking spaces availfor Transportation as cost-effectively, able, Klein said, beand the easiest way cause of upcoming possible,” Klein said. “This is a really construction on a new parking deck delicate balance. We want to not be in the West Lot. This construction is wasteful, but we want to have enough due to start in May 2010 and be completed by fall 2011. Transportation has buses on all the routes.” The Engineering Route 3 will have a parking Listserv which provides in-
“This new route will be an express route, an easy inout route to Main Campus.”
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formation about the changes in traffic and parking. The Varsity Drive bus stop will be closed throughout the construction, she said. “It would be a good idea for Wolf Village residents and any student that has a class on the southwestern area of campus to sign up for the Parking Listserv, which will provide information about changes in parking, permits, lot closings and road closings,” Klein said. “Wolfline also has a Facebook page that will be updated with information about where the Wolfline will and won’t be stopping.” Varsity Lot Permits (a “V” permit) will be sold for $99 annually due to the construction of the new parking deck, Klein said. She said a new route will be added to transport students to campus. “This new route will be an express route, an easy in-out route to Main Campus for students parking in the Varsity Lot,” Klein said. “The route hasn’t been decided yet, but it will not have a lot of stops, because we want it to be express.” According to Klein and Godfrey, all this information can be alot to remember, that’s why Transportation offers as many ways as possible to keep students and faculty up to date. “The Transportation Web page will always have up-to-date information about the construction, so that’s always a good place to check,” Klein said.
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PHOTO BY KYLE O’DONNELL
uke McIntyre, a senior in arts applications with a minor in music, uses a hand tool and lathe in the Crafts Center to spin and shape wood, creating a chess piece. It took him about 45 minutes to make two chess pieces for the set, which he has almost finished.
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