Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.
Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10212084
Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.
I live on a bicycle street (legally means bikes have right of way, but not much more than that), but every morning at 08:00, there are a few, but enough parents that drive their kids to school, that it creates dangerous situations. Some schools here in the city even ban parents from dropping kids off by car, close to schools.
I rode my bicycle to school one day when I was 15 years old. Technically it was illegal, as I had to ride over a bridge where it's illegal for bicycles or pedestrians.
But I got away with it, safely no less. 👍
In North America, I've never seen a bridge in my area be restricted from bicycles. I've only seen restrictions on the freeway.
I don't have kids, and I haven't gone to school in...checks calendar....a very long time. WTF do some parents drive kids to school when there are school busses? What am I out of the loop on? We either walked or took the bus when I was a kid. Don't the parents have shit to do?
A lot of places don't have buses and the roads aren't safe for kids to cycle anymore. The assumption is that if you're a parent, you just have to "make time" some-crazy-how.
Thanks for the explanation. I should have known it's the usual lack of proper infrastructure.
Latch key kids are also not as much of a thing anymore. I absolutely loved when my mom worked so we'd get that couple of hours of unsupervised time to ourselves.
My son refused to ride the bus at a certain point because it wasn't a safe environment for him.
Rich kids
Good. Hopefully this will put an end to idiot parents who illegally park in the bike lanes near schools, putting cyclists and kids at risk, just because they are lazy AF.
Just give the kids ulocks and teach them how to use them on misparked cars
Oh you sweet summer child....
Let's see a study of children killed or injured vs not waiting in the car line....
Convenience vs mortality
School drop offs increase danger to children.
A joint study released by York University, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto cites dangerous drop-offs on the opposite side of the road, cars stopped blocking traffic and double parking as cause for concern regarding the rise in collisions
We observed that in 88 per cent of the schools that we went to look at and with each additional behaviour it put kids at a 45 per cent increased risk of having a pedestrian collision
Of course the best mitigation measure:
If you can, walk your kids to school. Let your kids walk to school. The more kids walk, the fewer cars, the less chance of one of them being hit by those cars
Edit: study proper: http://news.yorku.ca/files/driver-behaviour.pdf