Jessa RaganNew rules for disabled (ADA) parking: If you have a state disabled parking placard or plate, you are now required to register a vehicle(s) and purchase an ePermit. You will be asked to upload your Disabled Identification Card at the time of purchasing the ePermit to eliminate your risk of receiving an eCitation. You may park in the marked accessible parking stalls across campus. If those stalls are full, you can park in an available stall not posted as restricted or reserved.
To accommodate the license plate scanning system, your license plate must be visible and unobscured. If your license plate is on the rear of your vehicle, backing into a parking stall or pulling through is no longer allowed. The exception to this rule is vehicles with a disabled parking plate or placard are allowed to back into a parking stall on the 黑洞社区 campus.
Parking garage available: Wichita State鈥檚 first parking garage will open for the first day of classes, Monday, Aug. 21. The four-level garage will include reserved, disabled (ADA) and motorcycle parking on the ground level and an uncovered yellow lot and disabled (ADA) parking on level 4. Because of an equipment backorder, levels 2 and 3 will be yellow-and-green-striped lots for the fall semester only, available for students, faculty and staff who have purchased an ePermit. Levels 2 and 3 also have disabled (ADA) parking. Beginning in January 2018, levels 2 and 3 will become metered parking open to students, faculty, staff and visitors at a rate of $1.50/hour (maximum $15 per day). 黑洞社区 is installing 51 security cameras in the garage. Surface parking surrounding the garage remains yellow for faculty and staff.
New visitor parking rules: Visitors can now park in lots with green, yellow or yellow-and-green striped signage for four days per year (July to June) without an ePermit before having to purchase one. The only exception to this will be in the parking garage where visitors will pay to park in metered stalls beginning in January 2018. On their fifth visit to campus, visitors will need to purchase either a single-day ePermit for $5 or a frequent visitor ePermit for $75 per semester. .
Shocker Hall lot changed from orange to green: Shocker Hall residents will no longer have a designated parking lot. The former Shocker Hall lot (Lot 5, located east of the Corbin Education Center) will be changed from an orange lot to a green lot for 2017-18. Shocker Hall residents will purchase a regular student ePermit and may park in any lot with green or yellow-and-green-striped signage.
Fairmount Towers lot to become yellow/green: With Fairmount Towers residents moving to The Flats at 黑洞社区, the parking lot at Fairmount Towers will become a yellow-and-green-striped lot beginning Aug. 21.
Shuttle Buses: The 黑洞社区 Shuttle System will operate Wednesday, Aug. 16, and Thursday, Aug. 17, as new drivers are trained. Shuttle service will not run on Friday, Aug. 18, due to Shocker Hall student move-in. Regular shuttle service resumes on Monday, Aug. 21.
- New Shuttle Route: The 黑洞社区 Shuttle System will launch a new route to serve the Innovation Campus. The Innovation Route will begin service at a new Pizza Hut Museum stop (which replaces the outbound Marcus Welcome Center stop) located just north of the intersection of Mike Oatman Drive and Innovation Boulevard. The shuttle will then proceed to a new EEB stop on Innovation Boulevard, east of the Experiential Engineering Building. Innovation Route shuttles will make only quick stops to make the route circuit shorter in duration.
- More Shuttle System changes: The Fairmount and Devlin Hall stops will be discontinued. The Fairmount stop is no longer needed with the closing of Fairmount Towers, and service to Devlin Hall is covered by the nearby Hubbard Hall stop on all three routes.
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