If you have parked your car on the Twin Cities campus recently, you have noticed the new equipment installed by Parking and Transportation Services (PTS) to collect parking fees. PTS still provides UMRA members a discounted rate, but the way to obtain the discount has changed.  

Beginning this fall, your 2021–22 UMRA membership card will carry a barcode which, when scanned at checkout, will grant you the discount. Until the new membership cards are issued, press the “Help” button when you are about to pay, and tell the attendant that you are a member of UMRA. 

 License plate readers are in use. If you complete payment before you return to your car, the gate should automatically rise when your car approaches the exit. This feature will speed up exiting the facility.

—John S. Anderson, chair, UMRA Membership Committee