Associate Dean Thomas Adler will remain as interim dean until a new dean has been named. Return to top of page Margaret Wethington, parking facilities clerk, has worked in the pay booth at the Grant Street garage since it opened last August. Wethington will return to her position in the parking office now that the garage is automated. Grant garage goes automatic New equipment installed in early June in the Grant Street Parking Garage means the garage is now fully automated. Donna Shaffer, parking facilities manager, says the two automated pay stations in the garage lobby will indicate the amount due, accept payment in coins or bills, and validate tickets.
Users then insert their validated tickets into machines to open the gates at the garage exits.
Gates at the garage now remain down 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Fees are charged only between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. For example, if a car enters the garage at 3 p.m. and leaves at 9 p.m., the ticket will indicate a charge for the two hours between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Also, cars entering on weekends still must get a ticket and have it validated to exit the garage. The 1,400-space garage, at Grant and North streets east of Purdue Memorial Union, serves as the main public parking garage on the West Lafayette Campus.