UGA Transportation & Parking Services — Attraction in Athens-Clarke County Unified Government

If I could give -100 stars I would, because this department is absolutely unnecessary and they don't care about anything else but their money. Some of the most greedy and disrespectful people I have ever encountered on campus. Tried to park at Tate today, so I could run in really quick and pick up my new ID, it would have been 1.00 to park. I was told students weren't able to park there at the time and when I asked why there was no reasoning so I was forced to park elsewhere and risk getting a ticket. Mind you, many other students were having to turn around with me and a lot of people had complained to them because they were going to be late for class. There was still no reason and no advising of other options that were CLOSE to park at. I come back to a lady putting a $100 ticket on my car and after I told her the situation, she was extremely rude and didn't try to understand anything I was saying or at least give me a another lot to park in. When I called the TPS office to inquire as to why the lot was even closed in the first place, I still was given no reason and was told I would have to make an appeal. I left my car out there for LESS than 10 minutes. I even work for the school and I don't make enough money to spend it on unnecessary things like these tickets, and if I work any time during business hours, they ticket me, regardless of me tell them I'm an employee there. For even more fun information, I've gotten towed while at work for having to park in the yellow on the street, because there was no parking on the non-painted curb and I couldn't park in another lot nearby without a permit. I just don't understand why this institution price gouges so much for parking when most other schools in Georgia will have their students pay a universal fee and park wherever they need to on campus. I'm a senior and one piece of advice I would give my freshman self would be to look at other schools' parking policies before choosing UGA because you would think it's not a big issue until it ends up causing harm than good, like a boot on your car, which thank God, I haven't had to...

I am in my third year at UGA as a transfer student. I have been on the parking waitlist since I started classes here, and 2 of those semesters I was commuting an hour. There have been days that I have completely had to skip class because finding parking was completely impossible. They decide to host every events parking at the only public decks on campus, which would be fine if the actual students had anywhere else to park. Furthermore, downtown has a max of 2 hour parking. I have tried everything possible to try and talk to them on multiple multiple occasions with NO help at all. They simply just don’t care about the situation that students have to constantly go through to be able to attend classes. With paying so much for this school you would think they’d provide their students with some sort of additional parking. It truly is absurd that every day I have class it is a battle to be able to park, even on days where I come an hour early just to be able to find parking. There are many other students out there with some horror stories. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like anything...

If I, as well as any other uga student, could give them a 0, we certainly would. If youve never been looked at like a piece of meat, you have never met UGA parking services. I walked down a parking deck once, and counted 20 cars all lined up next to each other, every single one with a parking ticket. I bought a Ramsey summer pass, thinking summer parking would be free/parking was included in the 60 dollar purchase. It was not. I got 3 tickets in 3 days. I’ve applied for parking all the semesters I’ve been here. I’ve received parking once, off campus. And the busses are not trustworthy at all. And then they close off the decks you can pay for when there are rich alumni coming in for game days. Gosh forbid they don’t get that extra money. The most infuriating thing is that it seems like they are using this ticket money to find new ways/technologies to give more tickets and building new dorms for more ticket-giving potential instead of creating more...