UCF Culture

One part of UCF culture I have observed, and become unhappy with, is the sidewalk-highway system. The sidewalks on campus are not just sidewalks for walking, but also for skating, biking, skateboarding, running, scootering, and even driving. Navigating your way to class must be done with caution because at many points along your journey you are certain to have close encounters with bikers, and skateboarders, at the least. There is also a good possibility of someone in a utility vehicle, or golf cart stalking up behind you. Also, many times you will find people on scooters or rollerblades squeezing by you on the walkway. This college campus culture has come to annoy me because I don’t like to share the road. I don’t like when people on skateboards and bikes whiz past me at speeds far greater then my own with risk of encountering crowds and crashing into someone. This has been known to happen, especially with skateboarders. I don’t want to be walking down the sidewalk and to have a skateboard come loose under someone for whatever reason and roll right into the back of my ankle. I mean if that happened hard enough that could really make walking anymore tough. Nor would I like to be run over by a bicycle or knocked down by either one. I’ve seen multiple times where skateboarders have almost hit people, one time a student jumped off his board to avoid hitting another skateboarder and landed in a bike rack. This was quite hysterical of course, but could have hurt someone easily.