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(St)Roads where the kids have to cross a busy road to get to the other side where their house is. In my case, a rural highway where traffic goes 55mph. Is bet
by Loughla 1y ago
(St)Roads where the kids have to cross a busy road to get to the other side where their house is.
In my case, a rural highway where traffic goes 55mph.
Is better to stop all traffic than force kids to figure out how to frogger through traffic.
- anitil 1y agoAh there might be some assumption here that I didn't realise. Typically we'd have a cross walk or traffic light near the bus stop where you'd cross. I'm in Sydney so I don't know of anywhere that you'd be going that fast that would also have bus stops (they max exist I'm just not aware of them)
- Loughla 1y agoRural areas especially, but most small towns in the US don't have crosswalks. The closest crosswalk to my bus stop as a kid was about 45 miles.
- strken 1y agoThe kids near me (in Melbourne, about 10km outside the CBD) just take the same public transport system as everyone else. You don't see school bus systems unless you're in the far outer suburbs, a regional/rural area, or maybe some other special cases. Growing up, our school bus stop was on a service road off a 100km/h highway, but it had good visibility in both directions and most of the kids over the other side got dropped off by their parents while they were young.
- Dylan16807 1y ago> (St)Roads where the kids have to cross a busy road to get to the other side where their house is. That's pretty different from my experience. Almost all the school bus stops around here are on small low-speed residential streets. And while there are surely some stops on faster 2-lane roads... A stroad or major road would mean 4+ lanes, which in my state means the school bus only stops traffic on one side. No kids will be crossing at those bus stops.