By Jackie Todd, Office of Media Relations
Need a parking spot on Clemson’s main campus? With construction underway in many campus locations, faculty and staff might feel like parking is limited.
However, there are many areas of Clemson’s main campus where faculty and staff can park, according to Dan Hofmann, director of Parking and Transportation Services.
“Many spaces have been relocated to accommodate construction,” he said. “But we are not eliminating spots. With every parking space that we have to take offline, we replace it with another one on campus. While these options may seem inconvenient, the reality is that our parking supply in and around the Core Campus has steadily been reduced over the years and we need to work together to find cost-effective solutions that involve the efficient use of transit resources.”
Added spaces
Hofmann said that faculty and staff have a number of new parking options on both the east and west sides of campus. For example, as part of the plan to identify other parking options, Parking and Transportation Services recently announced that 57 new employee spaces were created with the addition of a gravel lot adjacent to Calhoun Courts. To access these spaces, faculty and staff can enter the lot from Newman Road and Morrison Road.
Last month, 32 employee parking spaces were created in front of the Clemson House. Additional employee spaces were also added outside of Gentry Hall, in the Bryan Mall area, and on Williamson Road.
Park and shuttle
Other parking areas include the P3 lot (West Option), located near Memorial Stadium. This lot offers 118 employee-dedicated spaces with an additional 621 white spaces available for any valid permit. Sound a little far out? Not really. A Tiger Transit employee shuttle leaves from the P3 lot every 15 minutes and takes about 10 minutes to loop through the west side of campus. On the east side of campus (see below map), employee shuttles run from the E21 lot located off Cherry Road at Perimeter Road. Tiger Transit shuttles are available from 7:30 until 11 a.m. and again from 2:30 until 6 p.m.
Door-to-car
Parking and Transportation Services also offers Tiger Transit on-demand services when the regular morning and afternoon routes are not running. Just call Tiger Transit at 864-656-3333.
“Should a faculty or staff member need to get to a meeting or to their car for any reason in the middle of the day, they can call Tiger Transit for a ride,” explained Hofmann. “They’ll receive ‘door-to-car’ service in just minutes.”
In addition to the Tiger Transit shuttles, faculty and staff still have other options to and from the P3 lot. Clemson Area Transit’s orange route runs from 7:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Buses run every eight minutes. An orange route stop is located next to Littlejohn Coliseum right outside of the P3 lot.
Down the road
Future parking accommodations include a possible lease arrangement with a local church so that an additional 40 employee parking spaces will be available off of Hwy. 93 across from Mell Hall.
More parking is on the way. Since available parking space on campus is limited, Parking and Transportation Services is working to construct satellite lots just off the main campus as part of a Park and Ride system. One lot at the campus beach area will offer 187 spaces. Another lot at the east side intersection of Highway 76 and Highway 93 (at the Armory) once complete, will offer approximately 650 spaces. Inside Clemson will share more information about these lots and other parking options as information becomes available.
Visit Parking and Transportation Services’ Web page for up-to-date information or follow @clemson_parking on Twitter and “like” them on Facebook.
View employee shuttle maps below or download the west campus shuttle route here and the east campus shuttle route here.
