Vision Zero Cities Op-Ed: Lessons from Britain’s ‘School Streets’
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How London learned to keep children safe and healthier by restricting cars.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Schools
Op-Ed: Why Bad City Design is Failing Our Kids
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We need to change the way we think about kids and about our cities. We need to think of kids as full members of society and we need to design our neighborhoods for kids to have full, rich childhoods that let them grow into well-rounded members of our communities.
So what do we do?
Why Schools Are Paying Parents to Drive
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Accelerating school bus driver shortages during the pandemic are crippling the single largest segment of the U.S. public transportation fleet and forcing districts to pay parents to drive their kids to class instead — and the U.S. may not be able to fill the gaps until these essential workers are finally given the wages, benefits and protections they deserve, advocates say.
Infrastructure Plan Should Include School Safety
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Will the Biden infrastructure plan address how our students get to school?
How to Electrify the Nation’s School Buses
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It will take forever to electrify our transit systems, but yellow school buses could be switched over within the decade, a new report says.
VIDEO: What if Biking To School Was Safe?
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...which they can't, because most of New York City is a hellscape of double-parked trucks, reckless drivers and dangerously designed roads.