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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A block in the US doesn’t mean a square either.

  Yes, great, blame a non native speaker for expressing himself incorrectly, correcting himself, and then quadruple down on it. I was thinking of unprioritised NY-style blocks you see all over the place in US cities, gridlock magnets.

  It is required that children do not cross two lane roads to be picked up by school buses. I don’t make the rules. I don’t have a solution to US car culture. But making roads unpassable by school buses isn’t an answer.

  If you look back at that Hamburg link, at those streets internal to the superblock, you’ll notice that they are wide enough for buses to go through. There’s no regular bus lines through there (there’s two metro stations and plenty of bus stops surrounding it) but a school bus isn’t regular service, it doesn’t need to play by the same rules. You can make a pickup at one of those very spacious intersections. It’s not being done because there’s schools in walking distance and German kids can cross roads but it could be done. Would you, however, ever speed on those roads.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Things aren’t done differently, in principle, in villages. You were the one brining up blocks or did you mean “buildings surrounded by roads and fields”.

      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.

      Noone ever the fuck said that? At least I didn’t.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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