2 Pay Parking
JUST LOOKING FOR A ROUTE—lh\s is the new Duke Medi Bus, which
will serve as a transportation link between the buildings that make up the
increasingly spread-out Duke Medical Center. The bus is already running
between such points as Duke Hospital, the VA Hospital, the Pickens
Rehabilitation Center, the Statler Hilton and Medical Sciences I, but it's
route and schedule aren't down to a fine point yet. When the new parking
and towing regulations go into effect, the Medical Center's parking pattern
may change to the point that some employes may want to park in more
distant lots and make use of the Medi Bus to ride to work. A definite
schedule and route, therefore, will be determined and announced later in
August, (staff photoi
Towing
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coincide with the state's vehicle
license renewal deadline, since
vehicle plate numbers will serve as
the key to policing the lot.
The system is designed to work
this way:
When a person purchases a card
to the parking lot, he also will
receive a special decal to place on
his rear bumper. This decal will be
in addition to any other University
sticker the vehicle might bear.
The special decal will in no way
prevent the driver from parking in
any other University lot for which
he has the proper sticker. It is
merely his guarantee of a parking
spot in the gated lot.
When he obtains his decal and
gate card, the vehicle owner must
present his vehicle registration card,
from which his vehicle license
number will be recorded along with
his decal number and the number
of any other University sticker
assigned to him.
A driver may obtain a second
decal, at no additional cost, in the
event he owns a second vehicle he
sometimes drives to work. The
registration card for the second
vehicle also must be presented
before the second decal can be
issued.
No more than two decals will be
issued to one purchaser, and only
one of the person's vehicles will be
allowed on the lot at one time.
No later than Feb. 15 each year,
new decals will be sold and the
vehicle's new license plate number
will be recorded.
The gate lot will be monitored
frequently to guard against
violators who might attempt to
park by borrowing someone else's
card or by use of a decal on an
unauthorized vehicle.
Violators' vehicles will be
subject to being towed.
The main purpose of the gated
lot is to assure a parking space to
people who must drive to and from
the Medical Center frequently
during the day. Many Duke
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the inside with 30 chemical fire
extinguishers.
By forbidding parking along at
least one side of most streets, and
along both sides in more critical
areas, the entire Medical Center will
be accessible without delay to any
emergency vehicle.
The Emergency Room parking
lot and Emergency Drive leading to
it are two other areas in which
parking regulations will be strictly
enforced.
Some Medical Center employes
have consistently used the
emergency parking lot for their
personal use, in violation of parking
regulations already posted there. As
a result, physicians and families of
emergency room patients
sometimes have been unable to find
parking space.
In addition, cars have parked on
the street leading to the Emergency
Room. Parking there not only is a
violation but it also creates a hazard
to the cars themselves and to
emergency vehicles trying to reach
the hospital as quickly as possible.
Other tow zones that have been
areas of frequent violations in the
past include the street and circle
behind the Main Entrance Building
leading to what is called Morgue
Court; the circle in front of the
Main Entrance Building; the streets
in front, along the side and in back
of Baker House; and the entire
wheelchair entrance area.
Several other streets and access
areas to other Medical Center
Buildings also will be tow-zone
areas as illustrated on the Page 3
map.
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