tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post7606644907193213580..comments2024-03-27T12:53:39.298+01:00Comments on A view from the cycle path: Yellow school buses for Britain again ?David Hembrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14543024940730663645noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-49586454859223950912010-03-29T15:04:22.679+02:002010-03-29T15:04:22.679+02:00Unbelievable! Hopefully it wasn't considered i...Unbelievable! Hopefully it wasn't considered in any way reasonable or legal!!Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443493823465136241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-30001726781106969892010-03-26T17:12:45.307+01:002010-03-26T17:12:45.307+01:00@Neil
Increasingly school administrators do not s...@Neil<br /><br />Increasingly school administrators do not see things that way; believing that they have a mandate, obligation and the actual authority to police the behaviour of children 24/7, even in their own homes, in their own bedrooms.<br /><br />This is an issue that has come to a head recently in America where a school was "caught" monitoring children using the cameras built in kfgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-5144400857894371362010-03-26T07:02:15.076+01:002010-03-26T07:02:15.076+01:00Here in Ontario, here is an example of a school th...Here in Ontario, here is an example of a school that banned parents from taking their children to school by car.<br /><br />http://www.stnonline.com/resources/operations/related-regular-transportation-articles/1969-a-one-of-a-kind-walking-biking-school-opens-in-canadaKevin Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13186428862833389619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-87890397161020796022010-03-25T10:13:55.654+01:002010-03-25T10:13:55.654+01:00"Bikes were banned" - Of course the sch..."Bikes were banned" - Of course the school has no authority to dictate how you get to school, just what you bring on to the school premises.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11443493823465136241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-34478057827215990192010-03-23T09:34:40.914+01:002010-03-23T09:34:40.914+01:00I used to go by bus to school on a 3 mile journey....I used to go by bus to school on a 3 mile journey. Bikes were banned and there was no pavement for part of the journey - so my parents forbade me from walking because they considered it too dangerous. When the bus subsidies on child fares disappeared in the mid 1980's with privatisation my parents started driving us to school. Bear in mind the cost of sending 3 kids to school went up from 72psheffield cycle chichttp://sheffieldcyclechic.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-15320659875426221052010-03-23T08:46:23.753+01:002010-03-23T08:46:23.753+01:00Not all of the USA is yellow bus dependent. One p...Not all of the USA is yellow bus dependent. One place where so many children cycle to school that they got rid of the yellow busses is Davis, California. <br /><br />From their official website at:<br /><br />http://cityofdavis.org/bicycles/info.cfm<br /><br />"City residents voted to get rid of public school busses many years ago, so many children walk or bike to school."Kevin Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13186428862833389619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-72523841460111751812010-03-22T18:10:32.655+01:002010-03-22T18:10:32.655+01:00Bear in mind that the CBI are only interested in t...Bear in mind that the CBI are only interested in the impact on businesses. If 20% of the traffic is from the school run then 80% is from the work run, and that group live more than 3.4 miles away for sure. Few of these self important pin striped duffers cycle to work, nor do they make provision for their staff to do so. Evidently few of them have been to the Netherlands, which is most unfortunateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-46589628003991621972010-03-22T12:33:24.017+01:002010-03-22T12:33:24.017+01:00Steve: FYI, cars are banned from stopped near many...Steve: FYI, cars are <a href="http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2009/11/stopping-ban-by-schools.html" rel="nofollow">banned from stopped near many schools here</a>.David Hembrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14543024940730663645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-48954760294436845002010-03-22T12:06:45.149+01:002010-03-22T12:06:45.149+01:00Having lived in the US, I know that school buses a...Having lived in the US, I know that school buses aren't that great<br /><br />1. Costs of the buses come onto the schools budget. Right now, if a parent chooses to drive: they pay. With school buses, an already stretched budget suffers<br /><br />2. It gears the children up to going to school in a vehicle, albeit a shared one. But certainly not walking or cycling.<br /><br />Another way of SteveLhttp://bristolcars.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102538965694240940.post-72405869456564780042010-03-22T09:57:48.110+01:002010-03-22T09:57:48.110+01:00Surely it doesn't get more inefficient than bu...Surely it doesn't get more inefficient than buying and operating busses to make one run in during the morning and one out in the afternoon, plus a few school excursions?<br /><br />And we already have school buses, they just look like all the other busses and coaches on the road, only they can be used to run commuter services and other charters as well.<br /><br />What a wasteful suggestion Taliesinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04399506198451047847noreply@blogger.com