The volume of University of Colorado students trying to purchase parking passes for the upcoming school year was too much for CU’s online portal to handle Wednesday.
The parking permit sale opened at 10 a.m., but students reported in online posts they were experiencing long wait times and page errors. The sale was shut down and was to be reopened at 2 p.m., but it was later rescheduled again to open Thursday morning.
“Earlier today, the third-party vendor that runs CU Parking Services’ online parking permit sales had a technical issue that halted purchases,” CU spokesman Ryan Huff wrote in an email. “Parking Services had two successful smaller-scale sales earlier this week, but the volume of today’s larger sale was too much for the website to handle. So the website is down today as they fix the issue.”
Sales earlier this week were for smaller parking lots, such as Bear Creek, but Wednesday’s sale was designated for Main Campus parking lots, Huff said.
Huff did not have an estimate as to how many students were expected to buy parking permits Wednesday, but students posted that they had been in online queues of hundreds — some reporting a queue of more than 1,000 people — when the website was taken down.
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