Comment 117493

By DowntownInHamilton (registered) | Posted April 06, 2016 at 17:51:23

When I went to school in the 80s-90s, I walked to school from grade 1 to grade 6. Grades 7-8 were at a middle school far away and I took the bus. High school was even farther, and I took the bus, or walked.

A couple of "whys" jumped out as to why this trend of more driving, less walking, some outlined here, some not:

  • Kids who grew up walking to school (and hating it) didn't want to subject their kids to the horrors of walking;
  • More school closures leading to child warehousing schools, which are farther away than the smaller more community oriented model of years past;
  • Helicopter parents afraid that their kid is going to be abducted;
  • People willing to drive their kids to a distant school that they feel "more suits their needs" (my sister in law is like this - lives in Greensville, drives kids to Westdale HS daily)

There's probably no silver bullet. It's a problem with no clear solution, and will require a generational change I think to solve it.

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