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Most parts of the U.S. are not well designed for bikes or pedestrians, only cars. Also, many schools in the U.S. have really large districts, so some students l
by spicyusername 4y ago
Most parts of the U.S. are not well designed for bikes or pedestrians, only cars. Also, many schools in the U.S. have really large districts, so some students live really far from the school.
In many places this would mean children would be required to bike on 55mph+ 5-lane roads with no shoulder and no bike lane for 5-20+ miles.
Nearly all public schools in the U.S. provide a free bus system for all students for this reason.
- gabereiser 4y agoThis was me in elementary school. I went to a private school briefly where there wasn’t a bus and my mother had to work so I had to bike 20 miles to school through rush hour traffic at 11 years old.
- karmelapple 4y agoYikes! Thank goodness you got through it, and hopefully they've started offering buses or there are bike lanes in your city.
- karmelapple 4y agoThat was the weird part about our city: they simply did not offer it. Literally every family was expected to have a car, and get their child to school in a car... or somehow have them walk, but apparently not too far, since temperatures would routinely dip to single digits Fahrenheit throughout the winter months.