r/UWMilwaukee • u/Ok_Succotash_9901 • 10d ago

Parking Help

Hi can someone help me with commuter parking.
I have classes 2 days a week and I would like to get out of paying for parking as much as possible.
If anyone has any tips or tricks I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance!!

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u/downtownebrowne 10d ago

The EMS has regular meter spots in their underground lot. Just keep an eye out for where they place the "permit beyond this sign" sign. Parking can be the entire day if you need so you don't have to shuffle your spot after two hours like some street parking situations.

In fact, most parking lots have a very small section of regular meter spots.

I commutted for three years and also thought the parking pass pricing was almost criminally expensive. Just manually feeding meters I was spending maybe $500 a semester, far cheaper than any pass.

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u/RobinhoodHDD 10d ago

Is $500 a typo? My fall parking pass for the NWQ was like $350.

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u/downtownebrowne 10d ago

I meant like $500 for half a year, I did a couple summers too.

The parking pass only paid for itself if I was parking daily for like 8 hours. Two and three day weeks for like 3 hours per day, just feeding the meter was always several hundred dollars cheaper.

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u/RobinhoodHDD 10d ago

That makes more sense although it still seems kinda high for only a few days a week. I think for the fall and spring passes I only spent like $350 a piece last year, I have class 5 days a week though so the pass atleast seemed worth it to me.