Advice | Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how.
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For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again.

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.

  • @maggio@discuss.tchncs.de
    13•6 months ago

    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.

  • @over_clox@lemmy.world
    12•6 months ago

    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. 👍

    • @yonder@sh.itjust.works
      3•6 months ago

      In North America, I’ve never seen a bridge in my area be restricted from bicycles. I’ve only seen restrictions on the freeway.

      • @over_clox@lemmy.world
        16•6 months ago

        Exactly. You can’t legally cross the freeway bridges in my area unless you’re in a vehicle. Which makes it legally impossible to get from the north side of the city to the south side of the city, unless you’re either in a vehicle, or you break the law.

          • @over_clox@lemmy.world
            3•6 months ago

            That’s not the only time I crossed one of those two bridges on a bicycle. One time I stopped at the peak of one of them, to take a couple of photos.

            Cops gave me the bullhorn and said “You need to get off this bridge boy!”

            At least they didn’t arrest me, but they might have been worried if I was about to do something stupid…

            No, I just wanted a couple photos.

        • @yonder@sh.itjust.works
          1•5 months ago

          The bridges in my area that go over the freeway do technically allow for bikes and they even have a painted lane, but it feels horrible biking there with cars going past at 80km/h in a lane skinnier than my bike handlebars.

          • @over_clox@lemmy.world
            4•5 months ago

            In my area, the bridges are the freeway, running over rivers. So, there ain’t much option, unless you dare challenge the law, just to get to the other side of town. If you don’t have a motor vehicle anyways…

  • BoozillaEnglish
    10•6 months ago

    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?

    • Daniel QuinnEnglish
      13•5 months ago

      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.

      • BoozillaEnglish
        4•5 months ago

        Thanks for the explanation. I should have known it’s the usual lack of proper infrastructure.

  • @Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
    9•6 months ago

    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.