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Yet the US also had high rates of walking and biking among kids in the past. https://www.walkbiketoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Walking-to-school-rese
by CalRobert 3y ago
Yet the US also had high rates of walking and biking among kids in the past.
https://www.walkbiketoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Walking-to-school-research-1.pdf https://www.walkbiketoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/...
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In 1969, 48 percent of students in grades K through eight (ages 5 through 14) walked or bicycled to school.1
In 2009, only 13 percent of students in grades K through eight walked or bicycled to school.1
In 1969, 89 percent of students in grades K through eight who lived within one mile of school usually walked
or bicycled to school.2
In 2009, only 35 percent students in grades K through eight students who lived within a mile of school usually
walked or bicycled to school even once a week.
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- Retric 3y agoGetting to and from school was safer than walking around normally due to crossing guards. This is a global phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_guard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_guard From an American perspective the temptation is to bring up suburbs etc, but being bike unfriendly is a global thing. It’s really about the physical effort to travel X distance and therefore the reasonableness of biking such distances to see a friend.