I've just GOT to ad my 4 cents worth here!

When I lived in Sacramento, I skated EVERYWHERE!
Granted, I skated on what are now called "quads".
As for skates being TOYS, you must be joking!
The pair in the picture cost me $325 in 1981! And I still have them! (this is a recent picture)
But that's my downhill pair. On which I have hit a top speed of 62 mph.
I know, some of you are saying to yourself..BS!
Well, you don't know me very well then!
I regularly went over 50 on my favorite descents.
And skating quads in the rain on downhills is like skiing.
I can also ride a bike with my skates on (they have lappers AND copers!)
I can also scale chainlink fences, run right up stairs and jump off of them.
I can also skate backwards at 30 mph, which means that I can use the toe-stops the way they were meant to be used, going backwards.
IMO, skates are the ultimate urban transportation. And bus drivers usually let us on the bus if we removed just one skate. Sure, we also got 86ed from many places, but that was always half the fun!
I even worked (in skates) as a "courtesy clerk" at an Albertson's.
My stint there was summed up by one mom who's kids I was entertaining with my skating as I pushed their cart to their car..."ya know, every elementary schoolkids mom knows about you".
I think that was the General Managers intent!

SKATES RULE, BICYCLES..er, ..um are COOL, too.

Get some quads and shred the Cal campus!