Back when I was in high school, parking permits I think we're $15 or $20 (they're now $30). We didn't have assigned parking spots at all, but since my school was relatively new, parking was never an issue. Our second parking lots almost never had anyone parked in it. Now though, when I've driven by my old high school during the day, both parking lots are completely full. :eek: I think it's crazy the difference in the amount of teenagers driving between 06-08 and now. But also since my high school is in the middle of a neighborhood, a lot of people just parked down the street to save their money and walked because it was about the same distance from the parking lot to the school as it was from the neighborhood to the school, just on the other side lol. (But my high school had other ridiculous rules we had to deal with that were much more annoying, like you couldn't wear any type of jacket, zip up, hoodies, or otherwise, during school hours).
Now in college, my parking fees are only $25 per quarter (so $75 a year if you don't take summer classes). And I'm glad it's only $25 because parking is just ugh. I go to a community college, so everyone commutes. There's almost NEVER anywhere to park and being an urban campus, you have to be careful where you park because they'll tow you in about .2 seconds for being in the wrong place. It got to the point where parking was so bad, people were making their own parking spaces on the ends of rows, making it impossible to even get through the parking lot, and the people speeding through the parking lots weren't helping either, so they eventually had to put up barriers, lol. But we probably have around 3,000 (possibly less) parking spots for about 30,000 students on campus (with more online & at off campus centers). It's ridiculous. And my college just keeps having a bigger enrollment every year so parking is just so much worse every fall.
