Please, watch out for me…
Safe Routes to School is serious business
I was making my way to a 7:30AM meeting this morning; I was impressed with the number of walkers and bike commuters on Traverse City’s streets.
A handful of them were of students. Complete with the extra large, extra stuffed backpacks.(Whose weighing those things?)
None of them had signs on them or were being stalked by their father.
Still, we’ve all seen the line-up of vehicles at the drop-off turnarounds. I didn’t see that today, but can easily imagine it and know that it was going on.
How do we move away from that model?
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"Anxious father DRIVES behind his son as he walks to school..."
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If you figure out how to eliminate the drop-off/pick-up lines, let me know. I have to monitor the kids for +/- 10 minutes after school every day breathing auto exhaust and watching parents talk on their cell phones. I’d love to see the “park five blocks away and walk to school to collect your child” rule instituted at all the in-town schools. Our school does a “Walking Wednesday”. I volunteer to walk five blocks in the opposite direction of my normal walk to escort the kids from a designated drop-off point back to the school. I wish we did it every day. I’d much rather walk the kids to and from school than stand with them waiting for their parents.