needs to ban teachers permanently from our roads and make them pedal to work, thus no need for any silly congestion charges etc.... wots wrong with the government are they blind???????
2007-02-20 10:21:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
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2007-02-21 11:51:30 · answer #1 · answered by billybus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Government and local-government are at the heart of traffic congestion, due to the fact that we are all slaves to accountants.
It doesn't matter what it is, but almost everything "official" is now centralised......welfare, housing, schools, hospitals, post-offices, government offices, town-halls, libraries etc etc etc.
It was all done to "save money," except that it now costs everyone a fortune in the indirect taxation on fuel.
They talk about "reducing greenhouse gases" and "congestion charges," and as usual, it is the public who pay the price for bad planing decisions and over-centralisation.
Schools are a big part, but not the only part of the problem.
In a way, the safety of children has been totally compromised by the vast increase in traffic on local roads, and it does not surprise me that parents run their children to school rather than leaving them to face the dangers of traffic.
Perhaps when governments realise the wisdom of local communities with localised services, industry and shopping, and look at the hidden COST to people of all this backwards and forwards travel, perhaps the twin problem of CO2 emissions and traffic-congestion might be solved.
Is there any chance of that?
I doubt it!
2007-02-20 10:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by musonic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is such a valid point, I'm going to put it into my book - 1001 Laws For A Sane And Sensible World'!
It's all the mothers on school runs taking little Johnny a quarter mile up the road.
But then you can't blame the mum's because the laws against Paedos are so laughable that mum's don't feel safe letting their kids walk to school like we used to in the old days.
So. MY THEORY is this...Get the streets safe for people to walk on and the congestion will go away!!
Somehow WE have copped the blame (and the Stealth Tax payments) for something the GOVERNMENT needs to get right in the first place!
2007-02-20 10:34:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is kind of an incomplete thought. President's Day was a Federal and State Holiday. Most everyone was closed except retail business, so it was not just the teachers. However, government and education are often the largest employers in any particular town, city, county or state.
2007-02-20 10:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to ban parents or tax them for using 4x4 cars just for the school run or make them drive them off road and get them dirty it's all the parents driving there kids to school even if there school is only a 10 minute walk away silly thats why the roads are busy
2007-02-20 10:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by leicester_north_station 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't think it's just the teachers Ting. Many parents drive their children to school and school buses contribute to congestion. Also, when there is no school, the school zones are not operating and people can travel at the normal/posted rate of speed instead of having to slow down in a school zone.
2007-02-20 11:26:39 · answer #6 · answered by Rosebudd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I try to limit my answers to questions such as yours...but I'm gonna go out on a limb.
It's not the teachers you have issue with. It's the parents who are trying to ensure that their children are educated and get to and from school that you might have an issue with.
You might also have issue with employers who don't allow folks to take off work when the schools are on holiday also. Imagine the reduction in traffic.
And you might have issue with yourself. You see, if you aren't pedalling to work, or walking, but driving your car everyday, you are as much a part of the problem as anyone else.
2007-02-20 10:28:38 · answer #7 · answered by Lemar J 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I noticed that last week at half term. What gets me is that most of the kids round here live within walking distance, or there are lots of buses. Yet the parents take them still. I can understand if they are still in primary school but once they get to high school Im sure most of them dont need to go by car. Especially not one kid to a car either.
2007-02-20 10:28:02 · answer #8 · answered by jeanimus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be silly. The problem is that the school busses are all ancient and slow. What the government needs to do is invest in some NASA-style rocket busses, so the things can keep up with the flow of traffic.
2007-02-20 11:35:26 · answer #9 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not the teachers is the bloody parents in their 4x4's with a tiny child in the back - they clog up our roads every day and drive the rest of us crazy!!!
2007-02-20 10:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's parents taking their kids to school is the problem.
2007-02-21 06:20:09 · answer #11 · answered by WelshLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋