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    Make the street so narrow that anything bigger than an average pickup truck barely fits. Make it out of brick and don’t mark the centre of the road.

    School buses are a thing.

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        The urban planning in many cities is so absurd and not meant for buses. This means school bus routes are absolute madness and can take hours to get everyone home

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        I specifically quoted the part about making the road in front of a school so narrow a pickup truck would have trouble.

        If it’s too narrow for a pickup truck, how are school busses supposed to function?

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          Then let me specify:

          Wide enough for one pickup and no opposing traffic, but so narrow that two pickups are going to really have to negotiate to move around each other.

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            Schools have more than one bus and they have to pass each other. There are also school buses for the other nearby schools like the middle school and high school running at the same time even when school starts times are offset.

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                You have one bus going in one direction to a school passing another bus going to another school.

                Have you only lived in an inner city where roads can be one way because they alternate in direction every block?

                Also why do you need buses in the first place why aren’t the kids walking or biking.

                ??? If that’s your solution then why is there a road to begin with? Just ban cars. Simple.

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                    Are your schools connected directly to highways or something?

                    Roads are typically 2 lanes one in each direction. You already know this because you said a solution would be to remove the lane marker.

                    So you have a road with an elementary school, and 2 miles further down is a middle school. Even without that you have buses passing each other during pickup because busses only pickup kids on one side of the street so you don’t have young kids crossing roads. So one bus runs in one direction down a road picking up kids direction down the road.

                    We don’t have blocks.

                    What do you call a section of inner city bounded on all sides by a road in your country?

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                11 months ago

                My elementary school was 15 miles from my house. You think that’s a safe distance for a 6 year old to travel alone?

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                    Above you wondered why we need buses and I said that when I was 6 I lived 15 miles (24 km) from my school (and it was suburban, not rural). You then said that your school was 3.5 km away. I don’t see how that answers my question.

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            Yup, if a school bus is coming then everyone going the other way better slow down and watch out!

            It’s about not making it fit “comfortably”, not that it can’t fit at all. Drivers who feel uncomfortable naturally slow down and pay more attention.

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              Drivers who feel uncomfortable naturally slow down and pay more attention.

              Congratulations, you stumbled upon the key point of traffic calming!