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Pickup hour is a concept that does not exist in countries with reasonable urban planning. It's self-inflicted harm.
by occz 3y ago
Pickup hour is a concept that does not exist in countries with reasonable urban planning. It's self-inflicted harm.
- mwkaufma 3y agoNo disagreement here, but the question is how to escape the world we're in, not just dismiss it as someone-else's-problem.
- davidw 3y agoBy eliminating parking requirements. You can't make meaningful progress on other things while continuing to force one mode of transportation on everyone.
- badwolf 3y agoSchoolbusses are one option to mitigate this specific issue...
- jellicle 3y agoJust... stop self-inflicting? Double school bus spending, ban parental pickup or drop off, organize walking school buses for closer kids, give out free child transit passes... poof! The morning and afternoon traffic jams go away.
- MichaelZuo 3y ago> ban parental pickup or drop off Have you never attended a school board meeting? Even if you had a hundred times more influence in this world and spent the rest of your life focused solely on this goal, I wouldn’t wager higher than 50/50 odds for actually implementing this in the typical school district, for more than a few weeks.
- cafard 3y agoBut the swim team practices at 6 am, the football practice runs until 5 pm, and band kids have to be back at school at 6:30 for a 7:30 concert.
- itishappy 3y agoDrive then, that's not a problem. The issue is adding 800 single occupancy vehicles into a queue built for 40 buses (with the same capacity!) that we all pay to maintain for this exact purpose, then acting surprised by the traffic.
- occz 3y agoIn a reasonable society, the kids take transit or bike between these destinations if they are not within walking distance.
- caeril 3y agoHomeschooling, obviously. Your children will get a better education, in far fewer hours, without the commute, without suffering under the prison bitch culture of the public school social heirarchy. If your child is even just slightly neuroatypical, sending them to public school is child abuse, and you are a bad person, full stop. You are no different from the guy who drinks a fifth of whiskey and beats the shit out of his kids - you're just keeping your hands clean by outsourcing the beatings to the kids on the playground.