UCR Transportation and Parking Services

if you want a serious headache, you can try to deal with these people. As soon as you walk into their offices they are already stern and ready to put up a fight. You should avoid dealing with TAPS as much as possible. Everything from getting a parking permit to paying a ticket is a hassle. The tickets are increasingly getting more expensive and the parking cops are like hawks. I even saw one mark a car with erasable marker to time it!

Low efficiency. Extreme low efficiency.

paid crazy price for parking permit and no where to park! and no the baseball field lot does not count as a viable option… there is free on the street parking thats closer!

California law gives the campus too much freedom. The intention of this agency is not to enforce laws or regulations for the common good, its to make money. They give tickets on Saturday and Sunday when the campus looks deserted or even around 10pm when very few people are around. Remember, just because its the law, it doesn’t make it right to do. For example, segregation was once the law. I was once at a funeral on campus and had to argue against a ticket in a designated lot. One time I arrived right before they wrote the ticket, and they wouldn’t delete or stop despite that I was running to make it. These people are just doing their jobs, but these are jobs they chose. So its not a random event, they just fell into. They chose to financially impact students for the purpose of their benefit.

Kiosk help is real hit or miss: 2 yrs ago I had some dumb, fat, red headed kid who made everything difficult because he was completely clueless. Hopefully he wasn’t so stupid as to finally graduate & let someone more intelligent coordinate w/​aspb for their vender/​artist event parking.
Actual hired staff is professional, although a very long time ago they typed in the wrong code for my car (vlk is Volkswagen, vlv is Volvo) & I got out of paying my ticket.
For the dumb, mouth-​breathing Ginger bastard they get a 1 star, for letting me off the hook, they get 5 stars…& so in balance, 3 stars for a completely acceptable middle of the road job

You get tickets for doing what you’re not supposed to be doing. You park without a permit/​in retarded spot, you’re problem. Trust me, $ 25 is not a lot. And for all the money the previous reviewer complain about «pissing away»… well… how many times does it take for you to learn? If you do something and you get a ticket for it, don’t do it again.
I haven’t had any problems with buying permits from the meters, either. Here’s what you do: you stop in front of meter, put in your credit card, select time (if applicable), and it’ll print you a ticket. If that makes you late for class, leave five minutes earlier. Rocket science!
The «mile long hike» from lot 30 is not that bad. If you think the parking permits are a joke, park in the UV structure and walk to class instead. You’ll find that lot 30 permit fee is worth it, most of the time. I do agree that the new traffic lights help shorten the walk, however.
Those TAPS guys are just doing their job. I’ve never gotten an unreasonable ticket from TAPS before (got one I deserved when I let my resident hall meter time expire). I paid it, and it never happened again. No one hasseled me or was an a-​hole to me. In fact, those TAPS guy are even willing to help me when my car broke down.

Let me just say that if you’ve ever dealt with TAPS (as it’s known on campus) it is a complete and utter nightmare! Not only do none of the kiosks make it easy to buy parking permits (especially when you’re in a hurry and late for class), but the lil rent-​a-​cop attendants are total douchers!
I can’t, (and don’t want to) figure out how much of my money I pissed away during my time at UCR to TAPS… what with all the parking tickets (at $ 25 a pop) I was given and the meter fees and all.
In my opinion parking permits are a joke to buy because you still are forced to make the mile long hike to campus from lot 30. Before they put in the traffic light this was a total pain in the arse…
The trolleys are cool but take forrrrrrreeeeeevvvvvvvverrrrr when you have to wait for them… So all in all, parking at UCR is a joke… and the TAPS people are a-​holes.