Comments on: Scare-your-pants-off Routes to School? http://eugenesrts.org/news/syports Helping kids get to school safely and actively. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:48:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Roger DiBrito http://eugenesrts.org/news/syports/comment-page-1#comment-22 Roger DiBrito Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:16:54 +0000 http://eugenesrts.org/?p=405#comment-22 Great article, kids need to be outside. Death and disease by inactivity supersedes death by head injury on a bike. The lack of a helmet is not the pressing danger. The speed and mass of cars is. Children build relationships while walking and playing outside. Nothing we do inside can simulate or stimulate as do the outdoors. Great article, kids need to be outside.
Death and disease by inactivity supersedes death by head injury on a bike.
The lack of a helmet is not the pressing danger.
The speed and mass of cars is.
Children build relationships while walking and playing outside.
Nothing we do inside can simulate or stimulate as do the outdoors.

]]> By: Mighk Wilson http://eugenesrts.org/news/syports/comment-page-1#comment-21 Mighk Wilson Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:27:20 +0000 http://eugenesrts.org/?p=405#comment-21 Good post; important stuff. Perhaps we have "devolved" a bit cycling-wise over the years; my own experience with traffic as a child was (in a suburb of Cleveland, OH): Age 5: walked to school on my own after the first day, including crossing a 5-lane arterial (of course with a crossing guard, though). Age 6: learned to ride a bike w/o training wheels; immediately started wandering the neighborhood; usually on the roadway (my street was a cut-through and had modest traffic) (Didn't bike to school. It was really too close, and the principal only allowed it if you lived beyond a reasonable walking distance.) Age 11: rode to a regional park about 6 miles from home with a friend, crossing a few arterial roads along the way Age 12: rode as far as 15 miles from home one-way Age 14: first century Good post; important stuff.

Perhaps we have “devolved” a bit cycling-wise over the years; my own experience with traffic as a child was (in a suburb of Cleveland, OH):

Age 5: walked to school on my own after the first day, including crossing a 5-lane arterial (of course with a crossing guard, though).

Age 6: learned to ride a bike w/o training wheels; immediately started wandering the neighborhood; usually on the roadway (my street was a cut-through and had modest traffic) (Didn’t bike to school. It was really too close, and the principal only allowed it if you lived beyond a reasonable walking distance.)

Age 11: rode to a regional park about 6 miles from home with a friend, crossing a few arterial roads along the way

Age 12: rode as far as 15 miles from home one-way

Age 14: first century

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