A bus full of students anxiously stare down a red light, willing it to change so they can make it to class on time.

The light turns green, but the bus’s wait isn’t over. A herd of pedestrians saunter across the street, all pretending they can’t see the “do not cross” hand glowing orange in front of them.

It’s an all-too-common problem on this campus.

Lauren Powell, a sophomore from Conyers, said she is often a contributor to the crosswalk-clogging pedestrians. She said she knows first hand how big a problem jaywalking can be on campus.

Powell said she recently saw a girl narrowly miss becoming a bus’s hood ornament.

“People are crazy. I think they want to get hit,” she said. “I’ve seen some people do some really stupid things. People will be talking on their cell phones and texting and I don’t think they have any idea what’s going on.”

University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said jaywalking has been a fairly large problem on campus, but is not his department’s biggest traffic concern.

“We want to deal with the really flagrant stuff,” he said. “The biggest complaint I’m getting right now is these scooters on sidewalks. I’ve got students calling me left and right,” he said. “Most people can understand if you have to go 10 or 20 feet to park it, but they’re just riding down it like it’s a road, as fast as they can go.”

Williamson stressed it’s not only cars that are ticket-eligible. Everyone from scooterists to pedestrians need to follow traffic laws or risk getting written up.

A recent accident on campus ended in a hospital visit and a citation for one bicyclist who failed to follow traffic laws.

David Fallis, a senior from Alpharetta who rides his bike to class, said that biker’s story should serve as a cautionary tale for others.

“Bikes can be dangerous as a mode of transportation, so I try to be careful,” he said. “When I’m driving, I hate bikes so I try to remember that and stay on the side of the road.”

Williamson said the offense his officers look out for the most is speeding.

“If you look at speeding tickets, we only really write them for going 15 miles per hour over,” he said, adding lots of tickets still get written.

Williamson said he is constantly surprised by some of the laws people disobey.

“We still write up a lot of people who don’t wear seat belts,” he said.

“We had a bad accident on the first week of school, right on South Milledge,” he said. “They would have walked away if they had seat belts on, but they got ejected from the vehicle.”

Williamson said his best advice to campus travelers is to be patient.

“On a campus of this size, everybody’s going a different way,” he said. “There’s going to be some inconvenience.”