students charged<\/a> with reckless bike driving.<\/p>\n\u201cI feel like it\u2019s hard to hear them until they\u2019re already past you, so I feel like you can get run over,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n
Ryan Little, a senior electrical engineering major, has used electric scooter rental services in the past, but has noticed safety issues concerning use on Pitt\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would witness scooter safety issues almost every time I was on a sidewalk in Oakland,\u201d Little said. \u201cThey almost hit people going full speed on sidewalks and almost get hit by cars when they ignore basic traffic laws and common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Little believes that it is unrealistic to operate e-scooters safely on busy Oakland streets, though they can sometimes be efficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe scooter riders make up such a small portion of the community but impact so many when they blast down the sidewalk and clog bike racks,\u201d Little said.<\/p>\n
Little believes that there are better, more sustainable options for students trying to get to class.<\/p>\n
\u201cI personally ride a bicycle to class each day,\u201d Little said. \u201cI can safely ride at the speed of traffic without endangering myself or pedestrians.\u201d<\/p>\n
Katie Tobin, a senior rehabilitation science student, believes that e-scooters are unsafe in general.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan people with electric scooters have more manners and not run into pedestrians? The amount of electric scooters who try to rear me off the road is ridiculous,\u201d Tobin said.<\/p>\n
Samantha Anderson, a junior pharmacy student, also has concerns about safety with e-scooters and pedestrians.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know there have been concerns in the past of students walking on the sidewalks, worried that they\u2019re going to get run into,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cI\u2019ve experienced it myself, trying to share [the sidewalk] with scooters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Undeclared first-year student Josh Alvarado rides e-scooters, but opts for biking on campus after seeing riders operate e-scooters recklessly on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly think [the restrictions] are a good thing just because the people that do ride the scooters have no respect for people who walk on the sidewalk,\u201d Alvarado said. \u201cIt\u2019s never on the street, it\u2019s always on the sidewalk.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, first-year biology major Serena Rodgers uses an e-scooter to get around on campus, and said she would feel safer riding back to her dorm at night on an e-scooter instead of walking.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was honestly really irritated and annoyed because I feel like they could have given us a better warning,\u201d Rodgers said. \u201cWe [could\u2019ve] started preparing months before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students will be seeing less electric scooters on campus this semester.\u00a0 Pitt banned electric scooters from being parked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-274024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}