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CTR is buying one departmental parking pass for staffers to check out if they need to drive their vehicles to campus for meetings and such. You’ll be able to check out the pass much like you can check out one of the CTR vehicles. However, a departmental parking pass actually provides only limited areas where you can park on campus—primarily the San Antonio and Guadalupe garages. Given this limited utility (and a high cost of almost $600), we are purchasing only one departmental pass to start with. Get details about where you can park with this pass: https://parking.utexas.edu/parking/department/fdp-departmental-permit

Hot Water

The showers have hot water, and two three sinks on our floor for sure have hot water. The building’s overall hot water heating system is out of order. We might have hot water in the CTR kitchen—if we do, it’ll be a delightful surprise. Who doesn’t love a surprise? Otherwise, for hot water on the 4^th floor, go to the mini-kitchen sink found in between the bathrooms, next to the Mystery Loungeor the kitchen across from the central elevators.

Mezzanine Lounge

An eating Eating space is available between the 3^rd and 4^th floors, with access via a small staircase by the west kitchenette.

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• Basketball court (in the parking lot on the Mopac side)
• Walking/running trail, approximately 1 mile (in the wooded area surrounding the building)
• Showers and lockers (1^st floor)
• Patio seating (1^st floor)
• UFCU ATM (1^st floor)
• Vending machines (snacks and bottled drinks on the 1^st floor, canned drinks in the 4th floor central kitchenette.)

Nearby Restaurants and Stores

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• WPR has Longhorn Lots—that means anyone with any UT permit can park there. Faculty and staff can use an A permit, which is their least expensive faculty/staff UT permit. Permits are prorated if purchased later in the year.
• Purchase your permit online through the UT Parking and Transportation Services department. (https://parking.utexas.edu/)
• Note: If you are switching jobs from another campus department and have a garage permit, you can exchange it for an A permit by visiting PTS in person at any of the staffed parking garage kiosks: Brazos Garage (BRG); Conference Center Garage (CCG); East Campus (ECG); Manor (MAG); Speedway (SWG); Trinity (TRG); Health Center Garage (HCG).
• WPR parking map:
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• You can see that all All but one lot are designated Longhorn Lots. WPR employees are encouraged to use Lots A, B, and C lots. The Lots D, E, and G lots are intended for UT-permitted visitorsvisitors with UT permits (including visitor parking passes). Lot F is for non-UT visitorsvisitors without a UT parking permit.

Public Transit

• The Bus routes #3 and #392 have stops on Braker , but the Lane. The #3 runs about every 30 minutes and the #392 runs about every 50 minutes. If you take the train, the 392 #392 can pick you up at the MetroRail Kramer station. HoweverUnfortunately, if you miss, say, the 7:32, the next one doesn’t arrive til until 8:22 (based on Cap Metro times as of 1.25.18). So. Be warned.
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Bicycles

• The current public transit offerings for WPR might serve as encouragement to start involving a bicycle in your commute. The Mopac MoPac access road does have a nice, wide sidewalk, and the southwest corner of Braker and Mopac has newly installed pedestrian/bicycle-friendly cutouts.

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• From the Kramer station: ~15 minutes from the station, using bike lanes on Kramer and cutting through the Domain to the Braker bike lane
• From the Pavilion Park & Ride: ~20 minutes down Jollyville Road
• From the 803 stop in the main Pickle campus: ~10 minutes on Braker

• There are showers on the first floor if needed.
• You can continue to bring your bike into the office (and you can use the showers on the first floor if it’s a particularly sticky ride!). Rather than attempting the revolving doors with . With your bike, try the south entrance’s sliding glass doors or the the north side’s ADA swing door. Use Your proximity card will automatically open the ADA button to open it during normal hours. After business hours it is card-access only.door.
• If you or your visitors don’t want to bring bikes up to the office, you can use the bike rack . It that is located on the east side of the building, near a revolving door.
   

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• To enter the building: Visitors can enter the sliding glass doors at the south entrance any time before 5:00 p.m., and they can exit those doors any time before 7:00 p.m. Those doors lock at 7:00 p.m., so any visitor leaving after that time will need to be badged out one of the other doors (like a revolving door or the ADA swing door).
• To get past the front desk: At the front desk is another set of sliding doors that are open until 4:30 p.m. If your visitors arrive after 4:30 but before 5:00, they can get in the building but will have to wait at the front desk to be badged in to reach the elevators.
• When arriving, visitors must be escorted into the building by a person with proximity card access to the building. Please provide visitors with your phone number so they know who to call or text when they arrive.

Parking

• Attached is a parking map for visitors. The quickest route to the Visitor Lots (both metered and UT-permit) is from the Mopac access road entrance. Visitors can use the entrance on Braker as well—they just have to drive around the perimeter to reach those lots.
• The visitor parking situation breaks down like this:
UT Visitors
• Visitors with a UT parking permit: if a UT affiliate is driving a car with a UT permit in it or a UT vehicle, they can
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• park in any of
those Longhorn Lots–but they will need to pay the meter if they
• the designated Longhorn Lots. If they choose to park in the Pay & Display (metered) area instead (Lot F), they must purchase a permit at the kiosk and display it on their windshield or they will be ticketed by Parking & Transportation.
• Visitors without a UT parking permit.Non-UT Visitors: non-UT folks will need to either pay the meter in the Pay & Display area to park in Lot F or obtain a visitor permit to park in the Longhorn Lots and display a visitor permit.
  

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