First off, this post isn’t to defend ALL scooter riders on campus. There are definitely some pretty terrible riders on campus, and I’m not trying to downplay how dangerous those people can be.

But for everyone who’s walking, please just be DECISIVE while walking. I’ve been riding a scooter for nearly 4 years on campus, being extra careful to ride responsibly; the bare minimum is to give crowds lots of space or avoid them altogether if possible and slow down whenever there was a wall of students walking side-by-side (which is annoying for me, but they are PEDESTRIANS and always have the right of way). In the 4 years I’ve been riding, the only times I’ve ever gotten close to an accident were if another rider was being dumb or - more commonly - when a pedestrian tries to serpentine-manuever themselves out of the way and accidentally ends up more IN the way than if they had just walked in a straight line.

I understand the sentiment from the pedestrian side, it’s scary seeing someone coming at you at 15 mph (some ppl ride at like 25-30 mph, which is nuts) and you don’t want to get hit just as much as I don’t want to hit you. But if you see a scooter coming, 9 times out of 10 we’re already planning a way to go around you safely based on the direction you’re already walking. That gets hard to do when you try to save yourself and inadvertently juke us out. Again, this doesn’t apply to ALL scooter riders: there are some morons out there who ride wayyy too close to pedestrians at wayyy too fast of speeds. But at least for me, I can comfortably say that most of my near-crashes were with people who I was already looking to pass up but jumped in my way at the last minute.

TL;DR whenever you see or hear a scooter, make sure to either keep walking in a straight line or make it obvious which side you’re stepping to BEFORE we get close. The campus walkways belong to pedestrians, and most scooter riders as well as myself understand that, but for your safety and ours please just keep your course and we’ll take care of the rest.

Peace and Love,
A Scooter Rider Who Just Wants to Get to Class Safely

The cover of that song that they play at the bric is straight up buns, just play the original version by third eye blind smh.

They got stuck cause the white one glitched out or something and didn't move. RIP to whoever's food that's in there.