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by LucasBrandt 845 days ago
In 2023 I moved into an apartment across from a school in Chicago. The room I work in looks over the street. It's shocking how many drivers are looking at their phone as they approach a crosswalk where children are actively crossing to go to school! It's worse in the morning: parents drop off their own child and they just pick the phone right up, I guess. Other kids be damned.
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My living room backs up to a T-intersection in the alley. I also live next door to a school.

Every. Single. Day. I see parents on their phone blowing through the stop signs in the alley at that intersection. During school drop-off! While there are kids and parents walking in that alley to get to the school!

It is utter madness.

No enforcement, no consequences, so nobody is going to change.