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Those kids were killed despite a culture that puts "NEVER GO IN THE STREET" front and center in how children should interact with their built environment. This

Those kids were killed despite a culture that puts "NEVER GO IN THE STREET" front and center in how children should interact with their built environment. This came as a result of cars killing many, many people - cars that showed up on streets where kids (and adults) had walked for centuries without being run over. I mean, if I fill the local pool with sharks it is indeed true that shark deaths will fall to 0 pretty quick.

harryh 7y ago
This came as a result of cars killing many, many people When was this? I can find no time period in which child pedestrian fatalities were all that significant.
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rayiner 7y ago
> Those kids were killed despite a culture that puts "NEVER GO IN THE STREET" front and center in how children should interact with their built environment. What exactly does this mean? Most children go in the street. 20% bike or walk to school: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/12/03/report-more-kids-are-walking-to-school https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/12/03/report-more-kids-are-.... It's 1/3 in temperate California: https://saferoutescalifornia.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/travel-to-school-in-california-policy-brief-final-pages.pdf https://saferoutescalifornia.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/tra.... In a sampling of children 5-17, 61% rode a bike in the last month (with about 2/3 riding at least once a week): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5189688 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5189688.
magduf 7y ago
Pretty close. If you fill the local pool with sharks, then you're still going to have a few people killed by sharks, because they chose to ignore all the warning signs about the sharks. The death toll will be pretty low, though, because most people will stop swimming because of all the sharks, but there's always a few people who refuse to obey. This still doesn't fix the problem of why we stupidly put sharks in the pools to begin with.

harryh 7y ago

This came as a result of cars killing many, many people When was this? I can find no time period in which child pedestrian fatalities were all that significant.

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rayiner 7y ago

> Those kids were killed despite a culture that puts "NEVER GO IN THE STREET" front and center in how children should interact with their built environment. What exactly does this mean? Most children go in the street. 20% bike or walk to school: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/12/03/report-more-kids-are-walking-to-school https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/12/03/report-more-kids-are-.... It's 1/3 in temperate California: https://saferoutescalifornia.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/travel-to-school-in-california-policy-brief-final-pages.pdf https://saferoutescalifornia.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/tra.... In a sampling of children 5-17, 61% rode a bike in the last month (with about 2/3 riding at least once a week): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5189688 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5189688.

magduf 7y ago

Pretty close. If you fill the local pool with sharks, then you're still going to have a few people killed by sharks, because they chose to ignore all the warning signs about the sharks. The death toll will be pretty low, though, because most people will stop swimming because of all the sharks, but there's always a few people who refuse to obey. This still doesn't fix the problem of why we stupidly put sharks in the pools to begin with.