Still most children walk to school, but there's no doubt car users cause problems.
Increasing numbers are cycling -
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How not to decant children from a car...
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Posted 12 years ago #
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I think, as do so many others that it beggars belief, best done with kids getting out of the car on the road side!! Makes perfect sense to me and cannot really see why anyone would do it differently!!!!!!!
Posted 12 years ago # -
There are still far too many parents taking their children a short distance to school. I have always believed that if you or your children cannot walk to school you live too far away or out of the catchment area. This became a very big problem with the advent of league tables for schools with those that achieved high numbers of academic passes becoming THE school for your children to attend and parents cheating by using friends' or relatives' addresses near the school to get their kids in, and they may well have lived many miles away. In some instances people have moved house well out of the catchment area but do not move their children to the schools in their new locality, adding to traffic congestion all round.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@wc re 'the King's Highway is not a stable' - further reading suggests that this was based on a ruling from 1812. This seems to have been used for the rest of that century and some of the last one to outlaw other activities. More recent rulings eg 1999 say that uses of the road other than passage are allowed as long as they do not unreasonably obstruct the primary use. It would appear that the courts would have to decide if it was reasonable for a driver to obstruct a cycle lane, preventing its primary use. Perhaps this would depend on how reasonable it was for a cyclist to have to cross into another lane full of fast moving other vehicles?
Re the road markings in the first video: yes they are broken lines which are meant to show an advisory cycle lane. However they also continue through the zig-zag controlled area of a pedestrian crossing which is(normally) against the Crossing regulations, as is the central hatching between zig-zags without a solid island.
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