Campus Issue - Parking Issues

On the campus here at USC, there are many issues that need to be resolved. One that affects many students is the parking issue. Students that live on campus and have a car usually need to purchase a garage spot in order to have a place to park their car. As of this year, the parking lots at the Coliseum are closed from 2am to 6am. This means students have to find parking elsewhere. What happens when the student doesn't need their car everyday, but have to move it each morning to find a different parking space. Because the Coliseum lot is closed, many resident students with a regular parking pass have had trouble finding a parking spot. Some students don't want to pay for a garage spot, which over the course of the year is at least 5 or 6 times more expensive, if not even more. The school needs to leave the Coliseum lot open all night and all day so that students who live on campus can have a place to park their car without constantly thinking about when and where they need to move it the next day or night.

Playing Devil's Advocate:
I believe that the Coliseum is closed so that cars aren't left down there overnight each night. The school probably wants to leave them open so that commuter students will have a place to park. Another reason I think they close them for 4 hours each night is so that the school will make more money by selling garage spots. Garage spaces also went up in price for this year. Bull Street Garage, which being the most expensive costs $320 a semester, can probably hold at least one or two thousand cars just in the first two gates, not the third visitor gate. When added up, that is a whole lot of money. That doesn't include the other 3 parking garaged available to students. I'm pretty sure this is another reason as to why they won't keep the Coliseum, and any other lots like it, open at night.