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Safe Routes to School

A bit of perspective on the getting-children-to-school-safely question.

The irony is that turistas will pay handsomely to enjoy the same privilege — one person’s risky infrastructure is another person’s quest to relieve the ineluctable boredom of modern life.

(thanks Rich!)

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm and is filed under Traffic safety. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Safe Routes to School”

  1. fred_dot_u Says:
    December 2nd, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    A bit too much exaggeration, but I’m sure that’s characteristic for the producers of that program. Rickety cable? With a breaking strength of many thousands of pounds, that cable isn’t likely to be all that rickety. The “threadbare” burlap bag did seem a bit worn.

  2. Yokota Fritz Says:
    December 2nd, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    A little bit of hyperbole in that video — must not be that dangerous if 60 people cross daily and nobody’s been killed or seriously injured.

  3. Josh R Says:
    December 3rd, 2009 at 6:50 am

    On the whole, It’s still safer then walking to school at the same time all the SUV driving soccer moms are dropping their little darlings off.

  4. Step-Through Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    The cable seems safer that the shoulder of that highway they are shown walking along at the end. I wish people would judge risk based on actual numbers, rather than the subjective basis of fears or acclimation to risks.

  5. fred_dot_u Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    At the age of those children, if given the chance to do the cable thing to get to school, I’d literally “jump on it!”

  6. Seena Says:
    December 7th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    I’m with Step-Through on the more risky part of those kid’s commute.
    Also, wish they’d showed/explained the Return (up-cable?) trip as well! How does THAT work?!?!

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