EDIT: since apparently a bunch of people woke up with the wrong foot this morning or forgot to check the group they’re in:

This is a joke. Do not steal or vandalize speed enforcement cameras (or anything else for that matter). That’s against the law and you will likely get arrested.

If you’re addicted to crack or any other drugs, please seek professional help.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      The op picture is a rural US school. Bringing up how things are done in the city center of Hamburg is rather irrelevant. New York City children take the subway to school.

      I already said I don’t have a solution to US car culture. I only took issue with the ridiculous idea that the roads in front of rural US schools could be made safer by making them impassable by busses.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          I brought up blocks because the poster attempted to reframe the argument from a rural US school into a city center where one way streets are possible. I pointed out that this wasn’t applicable. It was not an inner city with blocks. One way streets are not a possible solution for this rural US school.

          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."

          When you replied to me, this is what you were replying to.

          That quote was the only point I am trying to address. I stated that a road that did not allow two small pickup trucks to pass would not be wide enough for two school busses to pass each other.

          That’s it.

            • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              Why can’t you have one-way streets in a rural area?

              Cost. That separate road means buying land from someone and turning it into road. Do they have one way roads for rural schools in Germany? Because I looked at a few Grundschule in Bavaria on Google maps and didn’t see any.

              How does that translate to "block the street for buses? If a street fits two pickups it fits two buses.

              He said small pickup truck such that two small pickup trucks could not pass without needing to maneuver.

              A bus is .5 meters wider than a pickup truck.

              It is cheaper and more convenient to have a speed camera that is active only during school hours.

                • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  11 months ago

                  First hits from list on Google

                  Alois-Kober-Grundschule

                  Grundschule Niederstotzingen

                  Grundschule Pfaffenhofen

                  Grundschule Lichtenau

                  Grund- und Mittelschule Wittislingen

                  Seyfried-Schweppermann-Schule Kastl, Klosterburg 6, 92280 Kastl, Germany

                  All located off a main road in the same style as US schools. Just like US schools, many have their own driveway that goes off the main road to the front of the school. (In the US this school driveway is one way.) It’s the main road that has the speed camera for US schools. It is the main road that the original poster I replied to suggested making impassable to two way bus traffic.