North Carolina State University’s Wolfpack Pick-Up program helps campus community members with injuries or disabilities get to their destinations via electric and gas-powered golf carts. Yet, ongoing campus construction projects, one-way streets, pedestrians, other motorized vehicles and much more can make navigating campus in a golf cart quite challenging.
“There's a lot of students, there's tunnels, there's bricks, there's one-way streets,” Erin Breiner, program director of Community Support within Resiliency and Community Support in the Office of Student Life and Advocacy, told Technician. “So we have to already be very mindful of pedestrians and all the other kinds of motorized vehicles that you see. So scooters, bicycles, buses, anything that is traveling around campus with some of the construction, really, how that impacts us is that we have to figure out an alternate way to get to where we're going.”
The directors of the program make sure to communicate with drivers to help with delay-related difficulties. They also communicate with their riders through GroupMe. Students using Wolfpack Pick-Up are also advised to give themselves plenty of time.
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