Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things

[lordofthemark]

QUOTE=mstone;89806]If we really wanted change, we’d have more multi-story schools in residential neighborhoods and fewer large campuses surrounded by traffic sewers.

like you know, this one

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=47th+Street,+Brooklyn,+NY&hl=en&ll=40.629278,-73.980032&spn=0.000001,0.0006&sll=38.893596,-77.014576&sspn=0.37089,0.614548&oq=47th+street+broo&t=h&hnear=47th+St,+Brooklyn,+New+York&z=21&layer=c&cbll=40.629278,-73.980032&panoid=jfOWGwtqUd-iiOZjX5wCyg&cbp=12,150.2,,0,0

but seriously, isn’t FCPS looking at something multistory for Bailey’s Crossroads?

[eminva]

@dasgeh 89793 wrote:

How about insisting that school systems (especially ones that teach every child to swim) teach every child to ride a bike? In elementary school. I’m looking at you, APS.

Bike/pedestrian safety throughout the public school curriculum, starting in Kindergarten, as well as skills lessons on walking, biking and using transit. It fits into the curriculum in many subjects.

Don’t know about APS, but it already is part of the curriculum in Fairfax County. A widely, perhaps universally, ignored part of the curriculum. But in the curriculum nonetheless.

As a League Cycling Instructor, I’ve long been mystified by the gap in bicycle education between bike rodeos for tots and Traffic Skills 101. I don’t know why the LAB doesn’t develop a model curriculum for older elementary, middle school and high school that could be adopted and put in place by schools. It should be complete enough that PE teachers could pick it up and teach it with no extra effort. I guess the LAB has a lot on its plate and chooses not to expend its limited resources on that demographic.

Liz

[chris_s]

@mstone 89806 wrote:

If we really wanted change, we’d have more multi-story schools in residential neighborhoods and fewer large campuses surrounded by traffic sewers.

On that topic, the backlash when APS proposed a tall urban middle school in West Rosslyn was remarkably violent.

[dasgeh]

@chris_s 89824 wrote:

On that topic, the backlash when APS proposed a tall urban middle school in West Rosslyn was remarkably violent.

While there were some comments about height, I believe a lot more of the backlash was about the silliness of putting a very large middle school in a place where there aren’t and probably won’t be a lot of middle school students. As opposed to other options (Strafford) that are surrounded by current and future middle school students.

A tall urban high school in a transit-rich environment, coupled with policies that promote transit use to access said school: that is a winner!

[Geoff]

@dasgeh 89825 wrote:

While there were some comments about height…

Whew! Being a “person of height” I thought for a moment there was an attack on taller than average people!

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