<p>Just a few questions about the campus:</p>
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<li><p>Is there a bank/ATMs on campus? If so which ones?</p></li>
<li><p>Is there a walmart/Target near campus?</p></li>
<li><p>What percentage of students bring bikes..are they really useful..and does campus require helmets?</p></li>
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<p>There isn’t a bank directly on campus but there are several close by, mainly Suntrust. There’s a Wachovia but it’s a little far. I know there are others but I can’t remember what kind. As for ATMs on campus there are quite a few but they are all Suntrust unfortunately. So if you don’t have an account with them you will be charged a service fee every time you withdraw money.</p>
<p>The Target is fairly close to campus but you have to drive. There’s a Wal-mart even further out but it’s not really worth going all that way unless they have something special or if you need to shop in the wee hours of the morning (open 24 hours).</p>
<p>I’d say the overall percentage of students with bikes is low and I rarely saw people wearing a helmet.</p>
<p>Is there a way or place to buy used bikes?</p>
<p>Banks,ATMs on campus: There is a BofA(and ATM) on the outskirts of campus on Blakemore Avenue across the street from Stallworth Rehab Hospital. There are several ATMS located on the second floor of Children’s Hospital and the Main Hospital. Regions,Suntrust,First Tennessee. There are also some ATMs up and down 21st avenue. Just go online with your bank and search for ATM locations or branch locations.
I think the closest place to get a bike near campus is Cumberland Transit. It is on West End Avenue. I know you can get bikes repaired there. If they only do bike repair,they can recommend some retail places.
Nashville is sadly not a great place to ride bikes. If you do, make sure you wear a helmet!
The campus is not an ideal place for bikes either and I don’t see many bikes being ridden.</p>
<p>^^ this is wrong, bikes are not that rare, and Vanderbilt is an excellent campus for a bike, especially for freshman since everything is so spread out. I had a bike and I found it very useful. Helmets are not necessary and rarely used. You can find used bikes on craigslist.</p>
<p>To clarify, Nashville is absolutely not a bike friendly town at all and if you are crazy enough to venture off campus on a bike, you better have a helmet on.
I just don’t see many people using bikes on campus either.</p>
<p>lol^^^ so funny, welcome to the real world, crazy? if you think nashville is crazy try going to a city like new york or LA and riding a bike, nashville is pretty easy, I rode my bike often to meet professors at local coffee shops, no helmet, it is not a big deal at all and the number of police around campus is ridiculous so people are normally driving pretty cautiously(even though Nashville drivers overall are idiots).</p>
<p>Well, I am a native Californian so I am quite aware of biking and driving conditions there. Regardless of where you live, it is very hard for me to understand why any intelligent(?) adult would ride a bike anywhere, without a helmet,period. It always surprises me to see “responsible” parents make their small children wear a helmet while out on a joyride while they don’t think they need to wear one at the same time! I guess 25+ years of seeing the devastating consequences from head trauma in the operating room is more than enough reason for me to not want to take any chances. If all drivers in Nashville are idiots, than that reinforces all the more the need to wear a helmet even if its just to get coffee off campus.</p>
<p>My daughter was leaving work from a parking deck on the Vanderbilt campus a few weeks ago and was involved in a 3 car pileup while stopped at an intersection. There are a lot of people at that campus who are NOT local drivers as well as many visitors in rental cars who are not familiar at all with the local traffic signs. The guy who forced a car into her car was from out of state. All the more reason to wear that helmet!</p>
<p>we are looking to put our Vandy '13 son on a USAA checking acct which doesn’t have fees at any ATMs (so they say! and elder son says his friend at Duke from a military family used this path and had this privilege.)…probably will get him their student credit card, too although my old fashioned side wants him to deal with a local bank with a branch nearby.</p>
<p>SunTrust Bank ATMs:
Medical Center North Lobby
The Vanderbilt Clinic Cafeteria
The Vanderbilt Commons
The Vanderbilt Law School
Sarratt Student Center
Stadium
Student Recreation Center
STudent Union
Carmichael Towers</p>
<p>Bank of America ATMs:
Medical Center
Children’s Hopsital, 2nd floor across from the Food Court</p>
<p>AmSouth Bank ATMs:
Medical Center North
Medical Center Bldg. 5</p>
<p>First Tennessee Bank ATMs:
2525 Building - 1st floor
Children’s Hospital</p>
<p>hope4freeride, I never ride with a helmet and do not believe it unsafe. Sure if I know I am going to be sliding into a curb head first I would like to have a helmet. </p>
<p>Do you also recommend joggers or elderly people wear a helmet when taking a walk? How about while driving in your car? If I know I may fall when running or walking I would like to have a helmet. Same if I am going to wreck my car. Why not have everyone wearing a helmet all the time to protect them?</p>
<p>is it just me or is there a whole new red white and blue color scheme on CC? yikes.
Elrod no need to bait people who express their own opinion based on personal hard evidence and experience.</p>
<p>We get it. You don’t wear bike helmets. They are for sissies. (No no you didn’t say the sissy part…that was my father who tried to talk me out of putting my kids in helmets…the VMI grad and veteran officer.)</p>
<p>by the way hope4freeride, my spouse, a Vandy grad, was also tired of seeing babies and small children hurt in wrecks from parents who refused to put them in secure car seats and preferred to just “hold them” or let them loose on car trips… He wrote a letter to the Governor and got a state project funded to address this based on his belief that we had better laws to punish litter-ers than we did laws to protect tiny children. Several grieving parents who deeply regretted their refusal to use car seats appeared on TV with my spouse when the program got national attention and funding. In fact, my son coming to Vandy in 2013 was on the show as the infant example and was handed over to the Governor for the photo opp when the program was funded.</p>
<p>but that is my husband’s idea of how to use a Vanderbilt education…</p>
<p>when he was a Vandy law student he was too poor to have a car…and he rode a bike (with helmet) to work 20 hours week at the Public Defender’s office downtown. Nashville downtown is really wonderfully close to Vandy.</p>
<p>Biking just past Green hills near Granny White Pike is really fun (with helmets)…lots of gentle rolling hills…lots of bikers.</p>
<p>Elrod, I don’t know what your problem is with me and I really don’t care. Time to move on. See you in the ER, I guess</p>
<p>lol my post was more an advocacy of riding bikes period, I was just adding the fact that I do not wear a helmet, which is my right since I am 18, but as far as the poster with the bank question SunTrust would be a good bank to go with while at Vandy because they are very popular around Nashville</p>