JokermanOct 3, 2023
Gernot Wagner
To bike in #NYC is to dodge SUVs, but nothing quite prepares you for the onslaught of them during school pickup time on Central Park West.
https://youtu.be/aZBNPt7U4sA
#cycling #bikeNYC @TheWarOnCars
To bike in NYC is to dodge SUVs

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Oct 3, 2023 at 4:18amWeb
Show threadJulesceltOct 3, 2023

@gwagner @TheWarOnCars I used to bike everywhere...getting hit by one of those gigantic vehicles is just not worth it.

And I really wish the government would do something. Thanks for bringing attention to this issue.

Show threadRobert CassidyOct 7, 2023
@gwagner @TheWarOnCars Same here in the suburbs. Pick up and drop off times are the most dangerous. Kids don’t walk/bike to school because it’s too dangerous. Trying to get the city to recognize the feedback loop they created.
Show threadSmokeyGeoOct 8, 2023

@robert_cassidy ?? The kids basically never biked to school, ever. I think because they’d have to carry too much stuff- all those books + a laptop in their backpacks. But they have school buses. If there are after school activities then they have to get picked up individually, yes.

As a parent I absolutely did not want my kids biking to school because they would never, ever wear helmets as much as I implored them. They were perceived as “uncool”

Show threadRobert CassidyOct 9, 2023
@smokeygeo Not here. The city was designed around neighborhood schools. There are no buses. You walk, bike, or get a ride from mom. When they were built in the 70s, it was all walking/biking. Then John Walsh arrived and everyone decided their kid would get abducted, and with no buses, they started to drive. Once that started, the cars made it too dangerous to walk/ride.
Show threadSmokeyGeoOct 9, 2023
@robert_cassidy can they buy busses? We have neighborhood schools too but unsure how you could permanently design a town around not having busses. they are not cheap (100k apiece)
Show threadRobert CassidyOct 9, 2023
@smokeygeo They can, but nobody is more than 5 blocks from an elementary school. Buses introduce new problems. If they just traffic calmed the shit out of the area around the schools and recovered that space to widen sidewalks, it’d flip the problem and make driving untenable.