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I went and looked up my old (1970's) elementary school walk... between 1 and 1.2 miles.
by pjmorris 12y ago
I went and looked up my old (1970's) elementary school walk... between 1 and 1.2 miles.
- acdha 12y agoI just did the same thing for the late-80s/early 90s: elementary school was 0.8 & then 0.5mi (often bicycle on city streets for extra child-endangerment paranoia) and by middle school that was 1.9 miles along a major road past the mall. Nobody we knew even blinked an eye…
- eru 12y agoI remember we even had bicycling lessons in primary school to encourage independent biking to school (in Germany).
- acdha 12y agoI'm sure California was a bit of an outlier nationally but we had similar encouragement citing environmental and health grounds. It's an easy sell when the weather's fine for cycling roughly 360 days a year.