{"id":8391,"date":"2025-09-02T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:56:44","slug":"parking-on-campus-is-it-as-bad-as-some-say-students-tupd-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/09\/02\/parking-on-campus-is-it-as-bad-as-some-say-students-tupd-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking on campus: Is it as bad as some say? Students, TUPD weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 With the start of a new school year comes a familiar complaint, parking. But is it actually that bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each semester sees students circling popular campus parking lots, taking to social media to voice their complaints, and demanding increased parking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It can be pretty hard to find a spot, especially close to where you want to park,&#8221; freshman Jonas Morisette said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I feel like certain days,&#8221; sophomore Erik Adams told TrojanVision. &#8220;I feel like it has its days when parking is good and when it&#8217;s not good.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid calls for more parking, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/student-life-resources\/student-resources\/campus-safety\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troy University Police Department<\/a> (TUPD) is reminding students of under-utilized parking lots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/08\/28\/tupd-warns-students-about-new-thc-related-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>NEWS YOU CAN USE: TUPD warns students about new THC-related law<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The soccer field lot is always wide and open,&#8221; Sgt. Rachel Farmer said. &#8220;I hear the &#8216;there&#8217;s no parking available at all,&#8217; and I&#8217;m like, oh, no, there is. The soccer field, I&#8217;ve never ever seen it full. Not once have I ever seen it full.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When compared to other universities, TUPD says parking is not that bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they really realize how blessed they are that we do have some more convenient parking than larger campuses,&#8221; Farmer told TrojanVision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In comparison, the University of Alabama&#8217;s campus is 1,143 acres large, which is almost double Troy University&#8217;s 650 acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To view all of Troy University&#8217;s parking lots, visit the school&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/map.troy.edu\/?id=1843#!s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interactive map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 With the start of a new school year comes a familiar complaint, parking. But is it actually that bad?<\/p>\n<p>Each semester sees students circling popular campus parking lots, taking to social media to voice their complaints, and demanding increased parking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can be pretty hard to find a spot, especially close&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2025\/09\/02\/parking-on-campus-is-it-as-bad-as-some-say-students-tupd-weighs-in\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":8393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1654,1142,2454],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-troy-university-parking","tag-troy-university-police-department","tag-troy-university-sgt-rachel-farmer","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8441,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}