"I understand why driving is the default. Most American adults hop in the car to go to work anyway, and figure they can swing by the school. But the more parents who choose this option, the worse it works."
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This is such a problem in Chicago where the dropoff line is typically right on the city street. People don't follow the rules, double park, people zoom around the double parked cars where school kids are crossing the street...
We have something only worse in our neighbourhood, where our street is a half-block dead end at a school yard, and every school morning it fills up with giant SUVs doing deeply inept multi point turns trying to turn around after dropping the kids off 20m closer to the school door and it’s maddening
Ugh yeah that’s bad. We do have ppl drop off with cars & similar things happen, I’ve had to yell at parents who’ve jumped the curb & almost hit kids or those who park part way up on the sidewalk. But majority walk.
A kid got hit in the crosswalk last year (he’s fine) by one of these giant SUVs and it drives me bananas, because I walk my own kids to school and it’s barely safe to be out on the sidewalk in front of our house. I’d like the city to do more than occasionally send a TPD car.
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