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Walking up to one block with your kid takes far less time than queueing in a pickup line in your car for two hours, it's not really any burden at all to walk 10
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Walking up to one block with your kid takes far less time than queueing in a pickup line in your car for two hours, it's not really any burden at all to walk 100m. If you dedicate a slightly larger tiny minority of land for 1 lane every block in the short direction then it requires walking at most one house over (because you either live on the long road, or you're on the short road within one house of either corner, or there's already a greenway or an alley or large non-residential block that can afford 2m for a pathway at your back boundary).
There are also many countries that allow children (or sometimes also adults) to ride on the footpath at moderate speed giving way to pedestrians if there is no bike lane.
- Someone 4y agoWhy would you walkways your kid every time they want to get out on their bicycle? And how will you know when it’s time to pick them up again because they decided they want to get home?
- Schroedingersat 4y agoI provided a variety of solutions. That one was to hedge against the mental gymnastics I predicted you'd perform at the prospect of a child crossing a road. If you want to know how it's actually done, go visit a school in finland or netherlands.
- Someone 4y agoAFAIK, what they aim for (and often do) in the Netherlands is what I said: having all houses in 30km/hour zones and requiring any crossings of higher-speed car lanes to be on segregated cycle paths. Kids don’t walk their bike to a cycle path or cycle on the sidewalk to avoid cars, they enter the street in front of their house (likely after riding on the sidewalk for a few meters, even though that’s illegal. Adults do that, too) That street either has a low speed limit or has separated cycle paths.