In article <
[email protected]>, SC Hiker Biker <
[email protected]> wrote:
>J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>4) The school district gets sued the first accident that happens to a child riding to/from
>>> school. The legal cost alone blocks this idea. Just one multi-million lawsuit will bankrupt a
>>> lot of school districts.
>>
>> Do you have any evidence of this? What would be the legal rationale for such a suit? Do you have
>> any examples of such suits?
>
>Do you have any examples of where a school district gave each child a bicycle to ride to school
>each day? Come on.... we all know the first accident that would occur on a bike purchased by the
>school would get the school district sued. If you can't see this line of logic, well....
I don't see it. Can you answer the questions I asked above?
Schools still manage to sponsor atheletic programs that are not entirely risk-free. It's simply not
true that anyone can easily sue anyone for anything and recoup massive damages.
>>>5) If the school is accessible only via busy streets do you want 300 kids riding on the side of
>>> US 999 at one time?
>>
>> Definitely! What's the problem? If they're replacing 300 cars on US 999, then they're probably
>> using *less* road capacity.
>
>So you have no problem with 7 year olds riding the side of a major highway.......
So "route 999" is a major highway now and the kids in question are 7 years old? I think it takes
a few more years before kids have the skills to handle complicated traffic situations, but it's
the complexity of the traffic that matters (e.g., what sort of intersections do they have to
handle? Do they have to make left turns?), more than the size of the highway. Certainly I rode on
streets to get to school (not on major highways), along a fairly simple, low-traffic route, when
I was 10 or 11.
>> You'd think this could be countered to some degree by education.
>
>Education of adults ... ah yes, and you would force education on adults, that is twice you have
>claimed adult education is the answer. Of course, we all know you mean indoctrination
Where did I propose mandatory education?
--Bruce Fields