When the fall semester begins next week, visitors to NC State will have more parking options and a higher price tag during their time on campus. Daily visitor parking rates will increase from $5 to $10, while online guest permits will go from $2 to $5.
Faculty, staff and students will have less competition for spaces around campus, according to NCSU Transportation Director Catherine Reeve.
“We are trying to balance the need with the demand, while also giving visitors more places to park,” Reeve said.
More Pay-by-Space areas and another payment machine are now available in the Poulton Deck on Centennial Campus. Approximately 100 pay lot spaces in the Partners Way Deck have been converted to employee parking.
Colleges and departments can still use an online process to request parking passes for guests who are visiting their offices, and soon they will be able to offer discount coupons to expected visitors.
Pay-by-Space machines have become standard throughout Raleigh, especially on NC State’s northern boundary, Hillsborough Street. Transportation began using Pay-by-Space machines in January at three locations on campus.
Those machines include the downloadable Passport Parking mobile application that allows visitors to add more time to their parking sessions from a remote location. Rates to use those wireless, solar-powered parking meters—which cost $15,000 each—are $2 for the first hour and $1 for each additional half-hour. Three more Pay-by-Space meters will be installed around campus.
Transportation will also phase out obsolete visitor hang-tags, which were previously sold at visitor booths and at the Joyner Visitor Center. Printing 40,000 hang tags per year is expensive, environmentally unfriendly and subject to misuse. Now, visitors will be required to stay in designated parking areas.
“Putting visitors with temporary parking permits in areas with employee parking put an undue burden on employees to have access to parking,” Reeve said.
Allocation of NC State Parking
(2014-15 academic year)
Total parking spaces: 19,980
North campus: 16 percent
Central campus: 43 percent
South campus: 13 percent
Centennial Campus: 22 percent
Centennial Biomedical Campus: 5 percent
Location: 16 percent North campus, 43 percent central campus, 13 percent South campus, 22 percent Centennial Campus, five percent Centennial Biomedical Campus.
Pay Lots/Pay-by-Space
Total public/visitor pay spaces: 966
Dan Allen Deck, Partners Way Deck and Coliseum Deck pay lot spaces: 764
Pay-by-Space spaces: 202
Employee/Student parking
Active employees: 6,450
Student permits sold: 12,000
Online guest permits purchased: 2,225
Temporary employee permits purchased: 690
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