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In BC: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouver-man-ordered-to-stop-letting-his-children-take-city-bus-to-school/article36180815/ https:/

by soperj 9y ago

In BC: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancouver-man-ordered-to-stop-letting-his-children-take-city-bus-to-school/article36180815/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/vancou... Kids can't even take the bus to school together. And that's on government, not social pressure. (For Americans) In Vancouver transit is both clean and effective.

djrogers 9y ago
Wow - when I was 10, growing up in Burnaby (suburb of Vancouver, and uses the same transit system), we learned to use transit in school on a special field trip designed to teach us to take the bus and Skytrain. After that I took it to Metrotown to do my Christmas shopping - felt very responsible and grown up. It was definitely a good thing, and not at all unsafe. Heck, today it'd be even safer since most parents give kids cell phones! - edited to clarify Burnaby's context to Vancouver
- vkou 9y ago
  I've taken public transit daily since I was 10 in Burnaby. I'd also bike to Metrotown from Edmonds. This was back in the late 90s. What a disgrace.
kolpa 9y ago
That is indeed extreme. The main point of having 4 kids is that it the redundancy makes it OK to risk losing one of them due to unfortunate circumstances that might occur as when riding a bus.