About 70 new parking spots opened up for students at the Rio Grande Campus. The Shoal Creek tennis courts located next to the AISD House Park and the Recreation Center have been turned into parking.
The addition is only temporary. The spots will be available until spring of 2009. The new spaces will help alleviate some of the parking problems at Rio Grande, until the parking garage being constructed opens.
When the spots opened last Monday, the police officers directing traffic noticed a big difference. In the early afternoon there is usually a long line of cars waiting for a spot, but on Monday, everyone who pulled in was directed to the new spaces and parked immediately.
"Parking was bad when I used to come here, I thought it would have been fixed by now," said officer Aeric Martinez, who attended classes at ACC in the late 1970s.
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