The Case for Car-free "School Streets"
Europe has them, and they save kids' lives. It's time we brought them to North America.
Every weekday of the school year, my two boys, who are seven and eleven years old, run a life-threatening, and—for a parent—terrifying, gauntlet. We don’t own a car, and live about five blocks away from their school. (The two facts aren’t unconnected: we’ve given a lot of thought to the geometry of our daily lives, but that’s another story.) That means …
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