Ileana Moreno 
Edinburg – A student at UTRGV used a drone and took to Twitter to voice his frustrations about the parking situation here on campus.
Roy Gonzalez, a Junior at UTRGV made a video urging the university to make more accessible parking spots on campus. His video went viral after it reached almost 100,000 views online.
Gonzalez received a response from UTRGV assuring him that the university is working diligently to resolve the parking issues and asked him if he’d be interested in joining their parking task force, in which Gonzalez responded that he only wanted a special parking spot.
The lack of parking spots has been in talks for some time by students as well as faculty. I spoke to the directors of Parking and Transportation at UTRGV to see what they have planned to fix the problems.
Rodney Gomez, executive director for Parking and Transportation Services, said the university added over 200 parking spots this summer but they still plan on expanding parking lots as well as using a new technology that uses signs at parking lot entrances to show availability for a vehicle.
Officials said they will continue working with the university to make parking easier for students.
While the official vehicle counter is in the works, Parking and Transportation officials said a test pilot will be used as early as November.
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