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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Schools have more than one bus and they have to pass each other.

  No they don’t they can enter from the same side. You’re just looking for excuses. Also why do you need buses in the first place why aren’t the kids walking or biking.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      In front of a school? Are your schools connected directly to highways or something?

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

      We don’t have blocks.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let me look at a map… maybe 1km max anywhere in my 30k town to the next primary school and that’s when you’re living on the very very edge of town. Should be under 500m for most pupils.

      If you’re living in a rural area, outside of the next village (which will have a school), which is an absolute exception as things tend to cluster into villages in rural areas, it might be 5km. Not really an issue with a bike, I biked what 3.5km to Kindergarten (together with my mom). If you have less density than that you probably should have boarding schools.

      For secondary education, if you’re living in a village you’ll probably have to take the bus to the nearest city. Regular public transport though the schedule will take school times into account. Yes, kids can walk 500m to the nearest station.

      Bonus: All that school density – smaller but way more of them – means that there’s obvious places to hold elections as there’s a municipality-owned place in Sunday stroll distance to pretty much everywhere. The only downside are the ludicrously low tables.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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