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 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.
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. 👍
In North America, I've never seen a bridge in my area be restricted from bicycles. I've only seen restrictions on the freeway.
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.
The American dream!
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.
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.
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..
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....
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