Fresno State will ban the use of electric scooters, bikes and skateboards on campus beginning with the start of the fall semester, citing safety concerns and a rise in accidents involving motorized vehicles.<\/p>\n
Under the new policy, the use of motorized personal transportation devices will be considered a violation of student conduct. Vehicles found in use on campus will be confiscated by Traffic Operations.<\/p>\n
Some students say the ban will make it harder to get across campus, especially during hot weather.<\/p>\n
“I don’t want to walk across campus. It’s Fresno. It’s Fresno. It’s like 110 in the summer,” Sean said.<\/p>\n
Others expressed frustration that the decision appeared to be made without student input.<\/p>\n
“I think some input from the students would have been nice,” Mark said.<\/p>\n
“It would have been nice to have a vote,” Sean added.<\/p>\n
Another student, Brandon, criticized the decision as overly simplistic.<\/p>\n
“They’re being lazy, like, there’s other options out there. You don’t know, gotta just take away the E scooters,” he said.<\/p>\n
The ban follows a spike in scooter-related accidents on and around campus.<\/p>\n
In January, a 20-year-old rider was hospitalized after being hit by a car near Shaw and Maple.<\/p>\n
Before announcing the ban, the university introduced “wheels off” zones, along with red paint and signage to mark high-traffic areas where riders are required to walk.<\/p>\n
Students questioned whether those measures had any real impact.<\/p>\n
“A band aid policy, something that they just slap on so they can say they did something, but they didn’t really do anything,” Brandon said.<\/p>\n
“Like, even right now, I just saw somebody use their scooter going through a wheels off zone,” Mark said.<\/p>\n
While students acknowledged the school’s safety concerns, some said the ban does not address larger infrastructure and transportation issues on campus.<\/p>\n
“Talk to lead architects, try not applying a city model onto the university campuses. Cities are car-centric. Obviously, not a lot of people are just driving a car straight through campus, right? You know, put some thought into it,” Brandon said.<\/p>\n
High parking prices and limited availability have long been a source of complaints among students, with many turning to electric vehicles as an alternative.<\/p>\n
“You can park in a neighborhood, you know, like I said, like a mile away, and you can get here in like five minutes. You don’t really got to get a parking pass, like, 100 bucks a semester,” Sean said. “We broke college students. What can you do?”<\/p>\n
The university said ADA vehicles will be exempt from the ban, and non-motorized scooters, bikes and skateboards will still be allowed on campus.<\/p>\n
A virtual information session on the ban is scheduled for May 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno State will ban the use of electric scooters, bikes and skateboards on campus beginning with the start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[19799,15755,122334,112,114,113,742,119963],"class_list":{"0":"post-285451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-electric-scooters","9":"tag-electric-vehicles","10":"tag-fall-semester","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-fresno-state","15":"tag-skateboards"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}