This continues to be great news for our urban communities,’except’ that for many US citizens Drivers Ed at the high school level continues to be the ONLY traffic safety and transportation mobility training most adults would have access to.
So what is needed is a city by city ‘diversion’ programme for this emerging group of adults that provides the same traffic safely training with mobility training (bike repair, cargo carrying, transit map reading, etc.) for those choosing to not drive a motorized vehicle. Contract your local school district (if it still has a publicly funded course - less seem to have it these days) to set one up.
By The Monday Roundup | Biking Frontiers on 10 July, 2012 at 16:11
[…] - By now you’ve heard lots about young people driving less and biking more, and here’s much of that information summed up in a helpful infographic. […]
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This continues to be great news for our urban communities,’except’ that for many US citizens Drivers Ed at the high school level continues to be the ONLY traffic safety and transportation mobility training most adults would have access to.
So what is needed is a city by city ‘diversion’ programme for this emerging group of adults that provides the same traffic safely training with mobility training (bike repair, cargo carrying, transit map reading, etc.) for those choosing to not drive a motorized vehicle. Contract your local school district (if it still has a publicly funded course - less seem to have it these days) to set one up.
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[…] - By now you’ve heard lots about young people driving less and biking more, and here’s much of that information summed up in a helpful infographic. […]