YouTubeShort;DW: 50% of kids used to walk and bike to school, it's 11% now. There's more traffic at school because more people using cars = more traffic.
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Maybe if we add another lane to the pick line line? -s
It seems like the answer to this could be in written, rather than video, format.
"This video could have been an email!"
I was really confused by the title. For me, a school pickup line would be something a 9th grader is saying to their classmate in order to seduce them. And while these pickup lines might be getting worse over time, most of them were already pretty bad at my time.
same. i was super confused by the picture.
Ay, maybe you should be in the pictures. How you doin'? 😏
They're just kids; you can't expect their pick-up lines to be good. I bet they also suck at flirting. /s
Unpopular opinion: schools are far too accommodating to car-driving parents. They ought to just flat-out prohibit dropping off/picking up by car except with a permit that's only granted for carpools or in exceptional circumstances.
I live not more than 200 yards from where my kid goes to school. We walk her to and from school. The number of parents I see driving that distance is absolutely ridiculous. It's a neighborhood school, so everyone lives within a mile or two. We all should be walking. But yeah, the school accommodates by having pickup lines and parking for all the damn cars. People will drive less than mile, park, then drive back home. It's like ingrained to only drive.
But then we'd have to provide funding for buses, and that would mean raising property taxes, which we can never ever do
Are there really school systems that refuse to fund buses for students outside walking distance (I mean real walking distance, not lazy fatass walking distance -- i.e. more than a mile or so from the school)? My local elementary school zoned such that probably at least half the students are within walking distance and has a couple of bus routes serving the rest, but has a huge line of parent drop-off/pick-up traffic anyway.
School systems? No, they would probably fund buses in a heartbeat. It's local municipalities and state governments. I hereby curse you with knowledge of Ohio
I hereby curse you with knowledge of Ohio
Aw, fuck.
The bus run but the crotch goblins are too precious to use them... Plus that's what poor people ride... Do you want your child to perceived as poor?
You clearly not thinking about the children
Do you want your child to perceived as poor?
Honestly? Yeah, kinda!
I don't want them to get bullied for not having trendy shoes or something like that, obviously, but I'm hoping to instill in them the right values and attitudes to be the kids who are perceived as cool for bucking the trend instead of conforming to it.
See also: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/07/frugality-the-new-fanciness/
Preach choir here but let's be real this approach is very much a minority
That thumbnail though. Pass
I've never understood why schools don't use a charter-bus system where parents drop their kids off at parking lots near by the school, to be shuttled directly to the campus.
You could solve so many traffic problems this way. The excess traffic could be spread out, to places that might appreciate it. (retail spaces) And you wouldn't have to design the school campuses to be carcentric logistics hubs.
This is similar to the drive-to-5 idea, drive kids to a drop off zone within a 5 minute walk to school