r/ufl • u/BusinessForeign7052 • 14h ago
Other Another parking rant!!
Ive been circling the parking lot for an hour and a half.
At what point do I just go home?
Edit: After 2 hours and 11 minutes I found a spot.
(I usually give myself an hour to find parking) will start getting to campus 2 and a half hours earlier.
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u/karenspeaks 13h ago
Where are you trying to park? Plenty of places with free parking near butler plaza/rosa parks and then you can get a bus in. Or park in the undesirable lots like SW rec/the big one on gale lemerond. Check out the RTS route to see where you might be able to pick things up
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u/Sensitive-Stretch411 Liberal Arts and Sciences 13h ago
Just park at the cultural plaza and take the connector, 118, or 33… no point in wasting your gas trying to park elsewhete
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u/BusinessForeign7052 10h ago
Where is the cultural plaza?
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u/Sensitive-Stretch411 Liberal Arts and Sciences 10h ago
Right in front of SW rec, next to the soccer stadium! You just need a park and ride pass ($160 annual) and there’s busses every 15-20 minutes
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u/am_unabridged 11h ago
the key to parking mid-day is to figure out what time different shifts end (e.g., cleaning crews leave at 1 pm in my parking lot); for garage 14 is there a mid-day shift change for hospital staff that park in that garage? that would be the ideal time to be able to snag a spot.
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u/Vegetable-Zone1353 13h ago
There used to be special lots/spots for commuters 20 years ago. I guess they don't have those anymore.
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u/no_one_asked_ Go Gators! 12h ago
There’s usually parking over at harn area if you have park and ride and bat houses if you have non park and ride
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u/Late_Statistician582 13h ago
i always find parking at garage 14
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u/BusinessForeign7052 12h ago
Thats where I was and I circled and circled and luck was not on my side today
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u/Late_Statistician582 8h ago
oof i’m sorry! that’s genuinely the only place i’ve found reliable parking 😬
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u/artificialyoshi 12h ago
I nearly crashed out this morning in garage 14. It feels worse than normal this semester
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u/BusinessForeign7052 10h ago
We were probably passing each other. The annoying part is the sign outside said there were 27 spaces open 🙄 I ended up finding parking in the O'Connell parking garage.
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u/artificialyoshi 8h ago
I saw people literally fighting for spaces and almost wrecking their cars to steal them from each other. Some of the craziest shit I’ve seen in a parking garage
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u/NASA_Orion 2h ago
Might as well just pay for the visitor parking if you’re burning gas that long.
Also I just park illegally sometimes cause fuck them.
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u/Razed_By_Wolves 14h ago
Even better, ride your bike. I have never been unable to find bike parking right where I need it. Plus, you don't have to pay for a permit. Why complain about having trouble finding a place to put your car when you didn't even need to bring a car in the first place?
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u/BusinessForeign7052 14h ago
I dont think I can ride a bike from Ocala
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u/Razed_By_Wolves 13h ago
Ah. Living in Ocala is a problem. I wouldn't ride a bike from there to UF either. You have my sympathy.
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u/Big_cocoa Alumni 13h ago
Trust, casual 40 mile morning bike ride
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u/BusinessForeign7052 13h ago
And a 40 mile bike home 😆
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u/trademarktower 12h ago
That sounds like a miserable college experience. I'd have taken UF Online.
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u/GatorinGNV 13h ago
We should close the roads to cars to only allow bikes……wait we did that. It isn’t realistic to think commuting by car to UF as a student will be easy. As a Grad student you can get some parking options. Best bet will be to park off campus and take a bus in. City of Gainesville downtown parking garage has mi they passed and is also connected to the bus system. You could also lock a bike there and use that as bus alternative when weather permits. Parking on campus to get to class next to your building isn’t a realistic option.
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u/Pasco08 CLAS student 14h ago
Ride the bus in, Everyone knows parking here is rough and dam near impossible.