It’s crazy to us too! Unfortunately, we don’t have much say in the matter. That said, plenty of kids do still walk to school, and many do have sidewalks, although they’re far from universal. The thing is that without the sidewalks you can more easily achieve:
Speed capture traffic cameras around school zones (nobody aside from the below likes these)
Contractor to manage the traffic camera
Kickbacks for the politicians to install the camera
Redesign the roads. If you build every road like it’s a highway it’s obvious that everybody drives insame, can you blame them? Make the roads narrower, people will automatically drove slower.
I can’t fathom why they don’t make school crossings on small increases in height. Not a traffic bump, just move a piece of 20 meters / yards long up by 25cm / 10 inches with a nice slope to get on and off. If you drove normal you barely notice it. If you drive fast, you’ll go flying.
US road engineering literally is decades behind other countries, you still build roads like it’s 1960, and you build horrible stroads.
It’s crazy to us too! Unfortunately, we don’t have much say in the matter. That said, plenty of kids do still walk to school, and many do have sidewalks, although they’re far from universal. The thing is that without the sidewalks you can more easily achieve:
No
Redesign the roads. If you build every road like it’s a highway it’s obvious that everybody drives insame, can you blame them? Make the roads narrower, people will automatically drove slower.
I can’t fathom why they don’t make school crossings on small increases in height. Not a traffic bump, just move a piece of 20 meters / yards long up by 25cm / 10 inches with a nice slope to get on and off. If you drove normal you barely notice it. If you drive fast, you’ll go flying.
US road engineering literally is decades behind other countries, you still build roads like it’s 1960, and you build horrible stroads.