As of today students at BYU can ride
their bikes on campus however they want. The only rule is it has to
be registered and you cannot ride it when classes are changing. Well
who follows rules anyway right? I find bike riders are never walking
their bikes during passing periods and just riding at a million miles
an hour straight into a crowed of people. Maybe i'm just a bike
magnet but I feel like every day walking on campus I just about get
ran over by a bicyclist. It comes to the point where I fear for my
life walking on campus. Okay maybe I don't fear that much but still
when ever I see a bike I freeze because I cant play that game where
we both try to move to the side so we don't run into each other but
end up moving to the same side with a bike. They would run me over.
If it wasn't for my athletic abilities in some cases I would have
been hit plenty of times. So I state that in my opinion editorial I
will answer the question “what should we do?” I will tell you
what we should do. It should be instated that students are not
allowed to ride bikes on campus walking areas and only on streets and
to the bike racks. I can easily walk from my book of Mormon class in
the MOA to my American heritage class in the JSB, without a bike.
There should be no reason for a student to have to have a bike to get
from one class to the next and put other students in danger.
I completely agree! I don't mind people riding their bikes when it is during class hours, but when it is in between classes, they should be walked. It is always hard to walk by a bicyclists because I am never sure which way they are going to ride, it's scary! So I think this is a topic/issue that a lot of people will be able to relate to.
ReplyDeleteAs a bike rider I agree. The biggest problems I see are lack of enforcement, and especially after dark, people riding on campus should be required to have lights on their bikes. I always use one on my way to work, but nobody else on campus in the evening seems to.
ReplyDeleteI am not a bike rider, (though secretly i wish it) but I agree that there should be a change of how things work around campus. Perhaps instead of nixing them completely we learn to integrate them into traffic. Much like cities integrate them by adding bike lanes. If BYU were to add bike lanes on campus many problems would be fixed, well as long as cyclists stay on the bike paths.
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