Parking at Penn State parking decks will soon cost more. Here’s a look at the changes
New hourly parking rates at gated garages on Penn State’s campus will go into effect this week.
Beginning Aug. 1 the rates for East, HUB, Nittany and West parking decks will increase to $2 for the first hour. Every hour after that will remain $1/hour with a $16 daily maximum fee.
Penn State Transportation Services announced University Park parking permit rates for the next three years in April. Some changes have already gone into effect, including some faculty/staff parking permits.
Earlier this month, rates for most non-technical service employee parking permits increased between $1 and $2 a month, according to a release from the university.
Beginning in the fall 2024 semester, most student parking rates will increase between $5 and $18 per semester, depending on the permit, the release states.
- Commuter permit rates will increase from $63 per semester to $66 per semester.
- Residential core permit (Lot 22, Lot 42, Lot 81, Lot 82, NDS-Nittany Deck) rates will increase from $353 per semester to $371 per semester.
- Resident storage permit (Lot 83, YAS-West Deck) rates will increase from $179 per semester to $247 per semester, and off-campus storage permit (Lot 43, YAS/West Deck) rates will decrease from $268 per semester to $247 per semester to align the resident and off-campus storage permit rates.
- Lot 11 permit rates for White Course Apartments residents will increase from $203 per semester to $213 per semester.
Parking fees help cover different costs associated with managing the university’s parking facilities, the release states, including “parking facility construction and maintenance, staff salaries and benefits, and parking-related technology equipment and software.”
“Parking revenue also is used to provide various campus transportation programs and services, to include campus transit, the RIDEpass reduced-fare mass transit pass program for employees and graduate students, campus bicycle facilities, and the Spin E-Bike Share Program,” the release states.
Parking permit rate increases were enacted in 2022. Prior to that, permit rates for employees had not increased since 2013, according to the release.
