Will she need a car?

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<p>We too do not have a student there yet, but we spent four days exploring the campus and downtown area on foot during the week of New Student Enrollment. The only place we drove to was Target, because we forgot to bring swimsuits. :wink: There are mainstream as well as upscale restaurants all around the downtown area near campus, and some nice places in the Haymarket are also an easy walk. There’s an “art” theatre right on campus, and a first-run theatre only three blocks off campus. (We went twice, because of the heat wave that week.) </p>

<p>I didn’t spend a lot of time looking at bus maps, but I did find that StarTran has a pretty decent website. ( [InterLinc:</a> StarTran Bus Service](<a href=“http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/pworks/startran/index.htm]InterLinc:”>http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/pworks/startran/index.htm) ) It doesn’t do route planning for you but I quickly saw that the Route 24 is the downtown route (near campus), and that the Route 44 bus goes right by campus, out to Target and to the Westfield Mall, which looks pretty decent ( [Westfield</a> - - All Stores](<a href=“http://www.westfield.com/gateway/ourstores/-all-stores-2040.html]Westfield”>http://www.westfield.com/gateway/ourstores/-all-stores-2040.html) ). </p>

<p>You get a bus pass as part of your student fees, and you can find information on routes on the UNL website as well as on the StarTran website. [UNL</a> | Parking & Transit Services](<a href=“http://parking.unl.edu/]UNL”>http://parking.unl.edu/)</p>

<p>Overall Lincoln bus routes:</p>

<p><a href=“http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/pworks/startran/routemap/weekday/pdf/allroute.pdf[/url]”>http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/pworks/startran/routemap/weekday/pdf/allroute.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Weekday bus stops in the downtown area:</p>

<p>[InterLinc:</a> Weekday Downtown Bus Stops](<a href=“http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/pworks/startran/routemap/weekday/busstops.htm]InterLinc:”>http://lincoln.ne.gov/city/pworks/startran/routemap/weekday/busstops.htm)</p>

<p>The one problem I need to solve is getting my son from the Lincoln airport to campus. Once he makes some friends at UNL I’m sure he’ll be able to find someone to pick him up, but until then I guess he’ll just have to take a cab.</p>