Re: cycling to school - advice needed



POHB wrote:

> There's not much choice around our way.

The choice is to not own a vehicle unless you have somewhere off-road to store
it.
Roads are for the movement of people and goods, not somewhere for people to
store their personal possessions.


> The parked cars also
> provide traffic calming because the streets are reduced to single
> carriageways with occasional passing places.

And often block the roads for public transport, emergency services and
commercial vehicles delivering essentials.

John B

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