With ADA spaces filling quickly, FIU outlines enforcement practices, transportation support, and ongoing plans to improve access for disabled students, staff, and faculty. David Brown | Contributing Writer With FIU’s rapid rise in student enrollment, welcoming nearly 6,000 freshmen to the 2025 school year alone, parking has become a major obstacle for students, staff, and […]
With racks overflowing and little protection from rain, students say the campus offers few safe options to secure electric vehicles. Danette Heredia | Staff Writer As scooter thefts have spiked within the last month, according to FIUPD case logs, a lack of accommodation for electric vehicles plagues residential students across campus. According to police reports, […]
Samaria Clair / Contributing Writer On July 11, FIU’s Parking and Transportation announced that Parking Garage 6 will be partially closed due to ongoing maintenance until Aug 21. Certain areas of the garage will be undergoing maintenance through August. PantherNOW reached out several times to Parking and Transportation but did not get an answer from […]
Elise Gregg / Assistant News Director Portions of the Blue Garage (PG2) are closed after a student crashed into one of the walls on the top floor. According to a statement from a Residential Life Coordinator, a student was doing donuts on the roof of PG2 and hit the garage. At the time the RLC […]
Lara Coiro / Contributing Writer Over the summer, FIU’s Parking and Transportation Department implemented a new device to deal with delinquent parkers: the Barnacle. University students who live on campus say the vehicle immobilization device is too expensive and unforgiving, as it forces a person to pay off their citations in full and a fee […]
By: Victor Jorges / News Director The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) announced the plan to design and build a “much-needed pedestrian bridge” on SW 8 Street and SW 109 Avenue via a press release on Tuesday, May 6. According to the statement, the FDOT will manage and oversee the project. After the collapse of […]
By: Victor Jorges/News Director On the second day of the spring semester, an FIU bus en route to Modesto Maidique Campus from Biscayne Bay Campus was hit by another car. Christian Namphy, a freshman public relations student who was sitting on the second row of the bus, said the bus barely made it to […]
By: Elizabeth Fernandez After a student led initiative, the FIU Board of Trustees will raise the Transportation Access fee by 5%, allowing students to use the Golden Panther Express Shuttle for free. The Golden Panther Express (GPE) Shuttle provides an alternative to driving between Modesto A. Maidique Campus and Biscayne Bay Campus. The decision […]
By Elizabeth Fernandez After a student led initiative, the FIU Board of Trustees will consider raising the Transportation Access fee by 5%, allowing students to use the Golden Panther Express Shuttle for free. The Golden Panther Express (GPE) Shuttle provides an alternative to driving between Modesto A. Maidique Campus and Biscayne Bay Campus. The […]
Written by: Patricia Menendez/ Assistant News Director Every day students have to pay $2.50 for a single ride on the Golden Panther Express (GPE) to travel between the Modesto Maidique Campus and Biscayne Bay Campus, but the Student Government Association wants to change that. The Student Government Councils from both MMC and BBC are […]
Written by: Patricia Menendez/ Assistant News Director University veterans will now have their own designated parking spaces at the Modesto Maidique Campus, according to Parking and Transportation. Starting Monday, March 4, the first designated spot will be in the Veteran and Military Affairs parking lot, according to Lissette Pedraza, the manager of Parking and […]
By: Joshua Ceballos/News Director Like a bad student, commuting in Miami has gotten a severely bad grade and it needs to improve. The public transportation system in Miami-Dade County is notoriously inefficient, and this year the inefficiencies were quantified by an organization called Transit Alliance Miami. Transit Alliance released a “Mobility Scorecard,” in which […]
