Students will find some relief from parking chaos during finals week, as University Transportation and Parking Services makes provisions for one of the busiest weeks in the semester.

Nancy Fox, manager of UTAPS, said that when regular classes officially end on May 17, student parking passes will be valid in almost all parking areas during the week of finals.

“During the week of finals, parking passes will be flexible. Student passes will be enforced in the same way that they are currently enforced after 4:30 in the afternoon,” Fox said.

From May 18 to the end of the semester, student passes will be valid in parking areas except for the faculty spaces north of residential parking and the gated faculty spaces in Parking Structure I.

Senior, Aliza Icasiano said she anticipates that the parking situation will worsen as finals approach.

“I?m sure that parking will get even worse in the next couple of weeks because students will start to come to class for finals,” Icasiano said.

Fox said that during peak hours on Mondays through Thursdays, about 200-300 parking spaces available on campus at any given time. Most of these spaces, Fox said, can be found in the overflow lots.

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