[zip1234]

> One issue with our neighbourhood is that SUVs use our road to skip past 2 junctions that get congested during school drop-off/pickup. The moms sometimes look ridiculously tiny in their urban tanks, but they speed through a residential road to shave off a minute from their school run. People in cars appear to act more selfishly than people outside of cars (has there been any research on that?) and I think roads should be designed with that in mind.

There are school busses--need to penalize people driving children to school as long as there are busses. The 'school run' needlessly increases traffic and danger and causes expensive decisions in school design.

[bobthepanda]

Most districts have actually done the reverse because school buses are really expensive.

If anything we need to bring walking to school back to historic levels. In 1969, 48% of children did so, but in 2009 that had declined to 13%. http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/introduction/the_decline_of_...

[oopsallmagic]

To be fair, I used to live like two or three miles from school, and we would've had to pay for the bus because I was "too close". So mom dropped me off at like 6:00 AM because we were poor as shit. If we cared about education at all, we wouldn't make families pay for something that I'm pretty sure used to just be free.

[supertrope]

Smart school districts make each school's main driveway bus only.