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Originally Posted by artvandelay
This might me the stupidest thing I've heard all week, what is the point of having a school zone in effect 5 hours after school is out?
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I've never understood why school zones AREN'T in effect long after school is out, if this really is about safety. As a kid, we played in the local schoolyard after hours all the time. Most schools seem to have playgrounds of one sort or another in them, or at least big open fields which attract children for a pickup game of soccer or tag or something.
Of course I hate the entire thing to begin with. Apparently children are being mowed down in record numbers in cities across North America, and only in Calgary are they safe. And Calgary has raised a culture of mindless pedestrians who pretty much from birth are taught to never look out for cars, which is the only reason these idiotic 30km/h zones are required in the first place. I was fortunate enough to grow up in an era when children actually played at playgrounds all the time, and somehow we managed to avoid the inevitable death trap that 50km/h residential streets are.
CPS sure is gonna like this though. Another hour every morning, and several more hours every winter. Plus, even more people slamming on the brakes on slippery roads for no reason. Yay!