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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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  - barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Why can’t you have one-way streets in a rural area? Fork off the main street on one end, merge on the other. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic can be bidirectional, cars can take a little detour they don’t use muscle energy.
    
    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."
    
    How does that translate to "block the street for buses? If a street fits two pickups it fits two buses. They’ll have to negotiate to move around each other so if you have many (which, as I told you a lot, you shouldn’t) you should consider a one-way road, or maybe a meeting bay, or a wider street with choke points, or whatever. But it’s not “blocking the road for buses”.
    
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    Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.
    
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