<p>I looked for info on the website, but i didnt find any. does anyone know whether freshmen can bring and park their cars? if yes, could you show me a link on their site where it says so? thanks</p>
<p>Can't show you the site, but you may bring a car as a freshman. Most choose not to. At the info. session with my son this year, this was brought up. Try aux03.auxserv.duke.edu/parking/ That may help?</p>
<p>Yes, freshman are allowed to bring cars. you park in the red zone on East Campus. this year the permit was $210. I didn't have my car first semester but I have it now and I love it. Unless you have a roommate or really close friend with a car, you're kind of screwed when you need to run errands. It's also nice to have on the weekends when they only have one bus running between east and west. I felt kind of trapped on campus first semester without my car. You end up staying in this little 'Duke Bubble' because you don't really have to leave.</p>
<p>do they have a bus or something to run to CHapel hill and some local malls/shopping areas nearby?</p>
<p>There is the robertson's bus that runs daily to Chapel Hill. On the weekdays, every half an hour and on the weekends, every hour. It runs until 12 am I believe. There seems to be about one bus a month on a friday or saturday night to Southpoint (the nicest mall with lots to do).</p>
<p>There's a bus that runs to Chapel Hill every 30 minutes, and they've JUST started running a bus that goes to several off-campus apartments and Brightleaf Square (a really nice area in Durham with several good restaurants). By "just started," I mean this week, so we've yet to see if they'll continue it/if it'll be a success. I think the idea of running a bus to other popular places (Southpoint, Target, BB&B) has been brought up a few times, but it's never been implemented.</p>
<p>To be honest I'd rather have a car as a freshman on East than as an upperclassmen on West. The parking is definitely better.</p>
<p>Might be a feature of the time of day, but when I first read the title of this thread, I thought, "Duke will allow freshmen to bring cars, but they must be parked by specially trained auxiliary</a> services employees."</p>
<p>One double-edged sword with a car - you'll have several "friends" by virtue of having a car...</p>
<p>And the parking department SUCKS. They SUCK. They give out hundreds of dollars worth of parking tickets without a blink of an eye, and they won't hesitate to tow your car either. I hate them. The appeals process might as well not exist. </p>
<p>And when will someone fix the 129038238453468576434898329834902345674385329048938674587354478 potholes all over campus roads that are messing up my rims???</p>
<p>I just about got hit by a backhoe while departing work. The <em>one</em> road that leads to my parking area has been under (re/de)construction since, oh, the Bronze Age... Though I will say that <em>parking</em> has made improvements such as clarifying the parking areas, creating an automatic renewal system for employees, and putting up better signage.</p>
<p>I suppose it's worth mentioning that one generally has to park illegally in order to get a parking ticket.</p>