When finding time ways to get around campus, not everyone finds walking effective.
A more efficient way to travel is on a bike or a skateboard. It can be much faster than walking, even running.
It can be much faster until a person gets stopped by a police officer.
Since it is the San Diego Community College District policy not to allow any skateboarding, biking, or riding anything with wheels on it on the school campus, and the current way to deal with this is to give out fines to anyone who gets caught trying to move efficiently around the school grounds.
Since skateboarding has a bad reputation, which effects how some people view the act of riding one to the point of making them unconsciously biased against it. “Skateboarding is not a crime” is a good reminder to those who see a skateboard and think it is anything more complicated than a way for people to get around.
Vice Chancellor Facilities Management Chris Manis says “Injury prevention is the focus of the policy,” but this stance seems to ignore the fact that driving is inherently more dangerous than riding a bike or skateboard. As Mesa student Jonathan Robinson points out “driving is much more dangerous” with accidents and injuries happening all the time, he says he has seen emergency services involved in on campus vehicle related incidents.
On top of that, automobiles are simply dangerous machines in every aspect, even if they can be comfortable on the inside, they can drive very fast relative to pedestrians. Much faster than skateboarders or bicyclists can move relative to people who walk.

The view that driving is safer needs to change, but everyday it is more normalized as people rely on their cars to get them to school. This only perpetuates the feelings people have against using transportation powered by yourself. It is that locally people choose to drive every day, yet it is actually extremely dangerous, but they chastise and make it difficult for those who try to do anything differently even if it is something much better and safer. The issue of making lanes for riding is not about a lack of space, it is an unwillingness to change.

Though it is not possible to say that allowing people to use bikes and skateboards on campus will cause less accidents, or that, given designated lanes to ride in that people will stay on those paths, it is not definitely not fair to argue that these activities are dangerous. And if one chooses to argue this side, then why are cars allowed to be on the school grounds at all?
Why keep a policy that negatively effects the population, when the solution has been proven in and on campuses around the world, with simple lanes to suggest students to stay on. And when the population sees that it moving around the campus works better for everyone when they stay in the respective areas for walking or riding they will do so. This alternative is better than what currently exists, where no one can do anything but walk without worrying about getting into trouble. And the worst part is, this is such a simple issue, with a really simple solution.