CMV: School zones are useless and encourage unsafe street crossing.

in my city, i occasionally see a group of young elementary or preschool kids crossing a street towards the park and they have them hooked up to literal ganglines like sled dogs. I don’t think they would do this if there wasn’t a risk of one of the little squirrelly fuckers making a break for it while cars were coming.

kids are unruly and difficult to corral. some of them are going to escape and run into the street from time to time, and they have no regard for the crosswalk. because of this inevitability, it’s better to have cars going slow so that they don’t get run over. because even though it is bad and dumb to run into traffic without looking, people still love their kids and are sad when they get hurt.

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