Scooters on BYU campus
I own a scooter and it is how I get to school and to work. A byu police officer told me one day that these were not allowed on campus. I asked him why, because it didn't make sense to me that bikes were allowed but not scooters. He explained to me that he agreed that the rule was stupid but that I needed to follow it anyways. He then said that when they were making the rules they said that bikes were allowed on campus because they had a steering mechanism and brakes... I looked at my scooter and back at him. He acknowledge the irony, seeing that scooters have both of those things. He said when they made the rule they were mostly talking about skateboards and roller blades, but they decided that scooters were more similar to skateboards than bikes, and that was why scooters weren't allowed on campus. Scooters are much safer than bikes. They are slower and easier to maneuver and stop. This means that a bike is more likely to hit someone than scooters. Scooters are also smaller, so they take up less space on bike racks, so more people can find a place to park their scooter or bike. I think that scooters should follow the bike rule. They are allowed on campus, and people aren't allowed to ride them during class break. I tried to find a place to file this petition on byu, but I assumed this was the place, since the citation you get for riding a scooter on campus is paid at provo city, not byu. I think that also becuase the police officer I talked to agreed with me that the rule was dumb and should be changed, that that would help this petition pass.
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