Terrific piece. Honestly the most common reason I have heard (and I have heard it a lot) from suburbanites to buy e-bikes is to skip the school car drop off queue
Angie Schmitt🚶‍♀️ @schmangee
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I tried really hard not to be judge mental in this article about school car line for @TheAtlantic. It’s a big mess. We could (and should) do better for parents and schools theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Replying to @dlknowles
We survived by being in walking distance to primary and middle schools, and an easy bike ride to the high school. Location. Location. Location. Oh and city designs matter.

Sep 19, 2023 · 2:03 AM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel
My primary school was walking distance but I took a bus - later two - over a distance of about seven miles to get to secondary school
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Birmingham, England, is not an especially well-designed city on that front. It is almost American. Lots of schools are on the outskirts of town where land was cheap in the 1950s
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