By Sydney Murray
Campus Parking
IU Students can purchase an E or F permit to park on campus. Most E parking is located near Memorial Stadium and Assembly Hall.
A full-year E pass can be purchased for $122.10, and a fall semester pass is $49.95. F passes are $61.05 for the full year and $23.96 for the fall semester.
Anybody with a valid IU permit, including an E or F pass, can park in any campus garage or non-24-hour A or C space from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Students living in dorms or other campus residences can also purchase a D pass through Residential Programs and Services. Anyone, even without an IU permit, can park in a D or E space between 5 p.m. Friday and 11 p.m. Sunday.
There are also five parking garages located on campus: the Atwater, Henderson, Poplars, 11th and Fee Avenue and Jordan Avenue garages. Rates vary for each garage.
Parking is free in these garages from 6 p.m. Friday through 7 a.m. Monday. The Indiana Memorial Union also operates two pay lots near the Union from 7 a.m. through midnight.
Bloomington Parking
There are three parking garages in Bloomington: the Fourth Street, Morton Street and Walnut Street garages.
Non-reserved passes for 12 hours a day, 5 days a week can be bought for $40, and non-reserved passes for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week can be bought for $67.
Reserved passes for 12 hours a day, 5 days a week are available for $57, and reserved passes for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week are available for $76.
The city also sells part-time permits, where drivers can park in a garage for up to 30 hours in one week for $25. These permits are garage-specific.
Residential passes can be bought for $25 for residents in each of the 10 residential zones. The residential permits expire Aug. 15 of each year.
The first three hours of parking are free in both the Fourth Street and Walnut Street garages and lots at Fourth and Washington streets, Sixth and Lincoln streets and Third and Washington streets.
The Fourth Street garage is free after 6 p.m. every day, and all on-street parking is free Sundays and holidays.
There is also free parking at Rogers Street from Fifth to 11th streets, Madison Street from Second Street to Third Street, Washington Street from Second Street to Third Street, Lincoln Street from Third Street to Smith and Grant Street from Second Street to Smith.
New meters were installed downtown during summer 2013. Each 15 minutes costs 25 cents.
The meters operate Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Coins and credit/debit cards are accepted. Meters are free on Sundays and city holidays.
Andrea Roberts, deputy director of Public Works for the City of Bloomington, said the new meters were installed downtown to help businesses.
“There was a lot of congestion in the downtown, and the idea was to free up the parking spaces so the businesses would have more turnover,” Roberts said.
The meters amassed more than $100,000 in revenue in August 2013, according to a previous Indiana Daily Student article.
Although the meters have replaced most free parking downtown, Roberts said most people have been optimistic.
“I personally have heard more positive feedback,” Roberts said.
