I went to grade school in Wisconsin Rapids. We had rules of the road taught as a part of gym class with little streets and stop lights set up in the gym. This was the 1970s. I wonder if they still do that.
Torrey > -------Original Message------- > From: Mary Mullen <[email protected]> > To: STRAWSER, Charles <[email protected]>, Troy Thiel > <[email protected]>, fortkendall tds.net <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Bikies] Fwd: Where are not more crashes at University and Park? > Sent: 12 Sep '13 12:12 > > Im for any strategy that works. In Baltimore, theres a > park that has a training village set up on a tennis > court-like area where they train young kids about rules of the road. > > I think that the younger and older people Ive seen have probably > been taught by their parents to both walk and ride on the left side of the > road facing traffic. Can we depend on 3rd and 4th graders to re-educate > both themselves and their parents? I hope so. > > Mary > > > On 9/12/13 11:07 AM, "STRAWSER, Charles" <[email protected]> wrote: > > An even better strategy than PSAs (on billboards or otherwise) would be a > comprehensive system of educating everyone in, say, the third grade, about > the rules of the road (using bikes in a controlled environment). Then, > regardless of whether one uses a bike as an adult, every adult (at least > every adult who participated in our public school system) would understand > the rules of the road as they apply both to drivers of cars and riders of > bikes (and users of feet). > [snip] _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
