As UCF welcomes more students back this spring, the campus will also be welcoming back Spin scooters.
The UCF community can expect 200 Spin scooters to be available at UCF’s main campus with new safety precautions in place, starting Monday.
Spin scooters were originally brought to campus in spring 2020 and temporarily removed after the campus closed due to the pandemic, UCF said in a news release.
UCF Student Government President Sabrina La Rosa said in a release that safety continues to be the top priority of Spin and UCF.
“We are excited to share that Spin scooters are officially back on UCF’s main campus,” La Rosa said in the release. “That’s why we worked together to identify several key safety enhancements.”
UCF listed the new safety and sanitation features that will be implemented this year to include:
- A safety ambassador program.
- Student ambassadors will ride around campus helping to identify issues and ensure everything runs smoothly.
- Required online safety test by all first-time riders.
- All scooters will have an automatic top speed during the first week of the program and on all first rides.
- Throughout campus, it is 10 mph.
- On Gemini Boulevard, it is 15 mph.
- Scooters will be sanitized by Spin’s operation teams every time that a scooter is rebalanced or picked up to charge.
- All Spin team members wear PPE, conduct daily health screens and physically distance in the company’s warehouses.
- The Spin app will send reminders to riders to take precautions, such as washing hands before and after every ride.
Scooter rentals require individuals to download the Spin app, which is available on Android and Apple devices.
Scooters will be available at 15 charging stations across campus and will cost $1 to unlock and $0.15 per minute to ride.
In the red zones, Spin scooters will not operate or allow parking, UCF Parking Services’ website states. In the blue zones, the scooters will have a max speed of 12 mph and in the yellow zones, the max speed is 10 mph.
The max speed in the orange zone is 8 mph, and the red pins indicate parking hubs or charging stations, the website states.
Green pins highlight deployment locations and blue pins indicate deployment locations near Greek housing.
Spin scooters operate from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. and are only operational on campus.
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