• SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
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    It’s funny, kids aren’t getting run down in school zones in other places, we don’t let them run indiscriminately across the road. They’re taught to walk to a a crosswalk to cross the road.

    In fact, lots of places ban school buses using flashing red lights inside urban areas since it’s more dangerous, it’s only allowed on rural roads.

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      …we don’t let them run indiscriminately across the road. They’re taught to walk to a a crosswalk to cross the road.

      Really? You’re actually going to defend this classist, corporate-astroturfing bullshit, the theft of the public street away from the People for the exclusive benefit of irresponsible drivers?

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        Yeah and oddly enough this isn’t a problem where jaywalking is legal like the EU, so what point do you think that’s making here….?

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        Yeah the amount of people who think the problem exists outside the US is astonishing.

        Flashing red lights in urban areas is dangerous since people don’t follow the rules and it provides a false sense of security to the kids.

        They’re literally lining the kids up and know people don’t follow the rules, it’s silly they haven’t thought to adjust the laws yet. Places in Canada did, decades ago.