I didn't have a car until my senior year. Even then, I had to beg my dad to let me buy one with all my own money (truly earned by me by mowing lawns and working at a Marina after school and weekends). I paid my insurance too. My dad only let me buy it because I had so many lawns and getting to and from was getting very impractical.

The student bike racks were much more full than student parking. Not that way anymore!!! They have had to expand student parking at my high school several times since I graduated.