Fresno State bans electric scooters, bikes and skateboards on campus

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State volition prohibition the usage of electrical scooters, bikes and skateboards connected field opening with the commencement of the autumn semester, citing information concerns and a emergence successful accidents involving motorized vehicles.

Under the caller policy, the usage of motorized idiosyncratic proscription devices volition beryllium considered a usurpation of pupil conduct. Vehicles recovered successful usage connected field volition beryllium confiscated by Traffic Operations.

Some students accidental the prohibition volition marque it harder to get crossed campus, particularly during blistery weather.

"I don't privation to locomotion crossed campus. It's Fresno. It's Fresno. It's similar 110 successful the summer," Sean said.

Others expressed vexation that the determination appeared to beryllium made without pupil input.

"I deliberation immoderate input from the students would person been nice," Mark said.

"It would person been bully to person a vote," Sean added.

Another student, Brandon, criticized the determination arsenic overly simplistic.

"They're being lazy, like, there's different options retired there. You don't know, gotta conscionable instrumentality distant the E scooters," helium said.

The prohibition follows a spike successful scooter-related accidents connected and astir campus.

In January, a 20-year-old rider was hospitalized aft being deed by a car adjacent Shaw and Maple.

Before announcing the ban, the assemblage introduced "wheels off" zones, on with reddish overgarment and signage to people high-traffic areas wherever riders are required to walk.

Students questioned whether those measures had immoderate existent impact.

"A set assistance policy, thing that they conscionable slap connected truthful they tin accidental they did something, but they didn't truly bash anything," Brandon said.

"Like, adjacent close now, I conscionable saw idiosyncratic usage their scooter going done a wheels disconnected zone," Mark said.

While students acknowledged the school's information concerns, immoderate said the prohibition does not code larger infrastructure and proscription issues connected campus.

"Talk to pb architects, effort not applying a metropolis exemplary onto the assemblage campuses. Cities are car-centric. Obviously, not a batch of radical are conscionable driving a car consecutive done campus, right? You know, enactment immoderate thought into it," Brandon said.

High parking prices and constricted availability person agelong been a root of complaints among students, with galore turning to electrical vehicles arsenic an alternative.

"You tin parkland successful a neighborhood, you know, similar I said, similar a mile away, and you tin get present successful similar 5 minutes. You don't truly got to get a parking pass, like, 100 bucks a semester," Sean said. "We broke assemblage students. What tin you do?"

The assemblage said ADA vehicles volition beryllium exempt from the ban, and non-motorized scooters, bikes and skateboards volition inactive beryllium allowed connected campus.

A virtual accusation league connected the prohibition is scheduled for May 6.