4 In Which Lots Can You Park? Towing Approximately 350 cars can park in the ravine lot behind the Bell Building which will become a gated, pay lot on Aug. 10. (See story "Pay Parking Lot Opening Soon" on Page 1.) If you've been parking there, but don't choose to purchase a gate card to continue parking there, just where can you park? There are several possibilities, among them these: * Some people park in the Card Gymnasium lot on the opposite end of the campus and consider the 10-minute walk to the Medical Center good exercise. * The parking lot behind the Graduate Center may have some openings, but during the school year it fills quickly after 8:30. * A new 100-space parking lot that will see increasingly more use is located at Yearby and Anderson streets and is no more than a five minute walk to the Medical Center. Regardless of where you decide to park, the best spaces—or at least those closest—will go to those who arrive at work the earliest. Duke remains one of the few major medical centers in the country where employes can park free within walking distance of their work. Pay Parking (continued from page two) doctors, for example, also serve on the staff of the VA Hospital, or must travel elsewhere, returning to Duke later in the day. Anyone who purchases a parking card, therefore, will be assured of a parking place somewhere in the gated lot. Specific spaces will not be assigned. In the order that persons purchase cards to this lot, they will be given priority in purchasing cards to any future gated lots that might be more convenient to them. In the event a card owner leaves Duke, his money will be refunded on a pro-rata basis. A $1 charge will be made for replacing lost cards. (continued from page two) Continued violations of other parking regulations also may result in towing. For example, a person who consistently parks in an unauthorized area—such as reserved spaces or in lots for which he has no parking sticker—may find his car towed. All cars parked in Medical Center lots are required to be registered with the University and bear a parking decal on the rear bumper. The Hospital Visitors' Lot cannot be used by Medical Center employes during regular working Office of Public Relations Box 3354 Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina 27706 hours. However, because the lot is convenient, well-lighted and nearly empty at night, employes on the 11 p.m.—7 a.m. shift are encouraged to park there at no charge. Night shift people are asked not to park in the H-sticker zone along Flowers Drive behind Baker House and the Hospital. Those parking spots are to be kept open for use by operating room personnel who arrive before the 11—7 shift is off work. The new towing regulation will be enforced around the clock, seven days a week.

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