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 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?
Rich kids
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. 👍
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
Well sure, when a bunch of dumbass behaviors like opposite side of the road are mixed in with drop offs there would of course be problems
Citing explosions in a dynamite factory as proof of your assertion is dubious at best
And what do you think is causing the dumbass behaviours?
