Parking tickets increase as students continue to struggle to find parking
February 28, 2022
With the shortage of parking on campus, Quinnipiac University students have been seeing an increase in parking tickets being given this semester.
Students have been warned by public safety about parking in certain areas such as: faculty parking, staff parking, handicap parking and delivery zones.
“We are doing more enforcement and trying to figure out ways to fix the problem, and unfortunately part of that is ticketing,” chief of public safety, Tony Reyes said. “We didn’t start ticketing until later on in the semester, and early on it was just a lot of communication, speaking to students in the parking lots.”
In the York Hill arena lot there were over 15 cars parked. Students have been parking there since last semester and have never received a ticket. Each car was ticketed and students received a ticket of $40. Derek Hernandez, a senior business major, feels that the parking situation has gotten out of hand.
“Honestly the parking situation has gotten so annoying to me that I started taking the shuttle,” Hernandez said. “I live on York Hill and it’s hectic to get parking anytime during the day if you don’t come at 7:00 a.m.; and now with all the ticketing and towing it’s stressful for students.”
Chief of Public Safety Tony Reyes is aware of the parking situation and is trying to bring a cultural change to the campus.
“Trying to get cultural change, so that students are parking where they’re supposed to be and that people are using the shuttles if they can,” Reyes said.
Students like Patrick Cooper feel the sudden ticketing is unreasonable.
“It’s a bit ridiculous, you can’t really ask people to pay so much money to not have adequate parking,” Cooper said.
Sajada Bonner, a senior health science major also agreed that students should not be getting ticketed so much due to the shortage of parking on campus.
“I think it’s a little too many tickets,” Bonner said. “I think because it’s hard to park so people are parking in places they shouldn’t be, but they just want to get to class.”
Ongoing renovations at the wellness and recreational center are also contributing to the increase in traffic and limited parking space.
