| UC Irvine, despite being concentric, is not a biking campus for administrative and geographical reasons:
1. You are not permitted to bike on the Ring Road, the main road that connects all the schools and major hangouts. However, there's almost no one to enforce this rule so you can bike on this road without getting "caught". Just make sure to get off the bike if you're in a high traffic area.
2. The campus is quite hilly, the core campus itself seems like a huge linear slope starting from the physical sciences area down to Mesa Court/Administration area. In between this big slope is a bowl that we call Aldrich Park.
So with that said, it's going to be a ***** to bike from Mesa Court to Physical Sciences buildings if you go through Aldrich Park, albeit fun on the return trip down. There's a certain path I use instead that doesn't go through Aldrich Park nor use the Ring Road. I'll draw it up if anyone's interested. |