Parking at UNC

janieblue
Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:29:54 +0000

Well, this is just my 2 cents-- but unless she really wants to take a lot of trips to the beach or the mountains on the weekends, I honestly can’t see why any freshman (or most students, for that matter) would want or need a car. Any place she’d ever need to go nearby would either be within walking or (free) bus distance. She could even get to Duke taking the (free) Robertson bus, which could also get her into the nicer shopping/eating parts of Durham, close to East Campus. I would never pay that amount, whether it’s reasonable or not, to park a car off-campus, and especially with no security. I really can’t imagine what one with do with a car-- again, except to take weekend trips. To my mind, not necessarily needing a car is a plus of going to a school that’s in town (not isolated). I think it makes more sense just to rent a car if you want to get away for a weekend, but I guess you can’t rent a car under age 21? But even getting back and forth to Greensboro, there’s probably a bus service, or convenient train service (that probably runs through/picks up in Durham) and goes to Greensboro.

As an aside, I think we all need to get off this car dependence Americans seem to have. When gas rates get up to $6+ a gallon, maybe that will force people to see the light-- or not.