<p>How is it being at Tulane with no car for the 1st year? Can you manage pretty well using the trolley and such? I've never been to New Orleans, so I don't know how the city is set up, but having been born and raised in Houston, I know what it's like to live in a highway-based city. Can anyone elaborate on this?</p>
<p>Tulane/New Orleans is very easy to get around without a car from my visit. Trolley runs right by on St. Chas. Ave into the Quarter/downtown, etc. There is also a lot right in Garden District, where Tulane is.</p>
<p>My son is surviving just fine. His roomie is from NO and can get his car on weekends for trips to Target and the mall, etc. Most everything you need is within walking distance of the dorms or like jmmom said, a streetcar ride away. As I understand it, most students don't spend a lot of time downtown or in the quarter since life in the Garden District caters to them. He will take his car next year, but I don't expect him to put many miles on it driving around town.</p>
<p>I believe there is a shuttle that goes to the Med school too. The Med school is downtown.</p>
<p>These kids are all spoiled rotten if you ask me. This grumpy old man didn't have a car until he was a year out of college. They all want to express their deep and abiding concern for the environment as lone as it doesn't involve their legs. NO is flat as a pancake get a bike if you don't have time to walk.</p>
<p>I'll also add that you can walk from one end of campus to the other in 15 minutes or less.</p>
<p>I still don't have a car and am graduating next year. The only reason you would need a car is if you lived off campus too far to walk, you want to go out to bars that are further than walking distance, or if you live off campus and need to go to the grocery store. A car is almost completely unnecessary living on campus.</p>