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- benijuana, on 10/11/2007, -4/+55my allergies!!!
- redrock34, on 10/11/2007, -4/+38In other news, fat kids protest nationwide.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+35Next week they are going to cover the streets with rainbows to promote "everything is fine" week to kids.
- rebopper, on 10/11/2007, -3/+30Should have been, Frolic to School Week.
- thecosmicpope, on 10/11/2007, -0/+26This idea isnt really to make everyone walk to school, only the ones who can do. Obviously if its going to br a 45minute walk, then its best doing it some other way. But in the UK theres far too many kids being driven to school from only a 2minute walk away. I live outside a school and I've watched 4x4 Land Rovers pull up, drop the kids off, drive into a side road, the mum gets out and goes into the house. A 30 second drive! Its a stupid situation which my daughter will not be part of. It needs to be stopped, and up beat stuff like this is how to do it.
- alexforcefive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24by "protest" did you mean "e-petition"?
- VeganG, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21@decay:
What's wrong with 45 minutes of sustained walking? If that's "unbearable," see a physician immediately. - kaiser44, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21and Asians, and Bahamians and most people from Cleveland, Ohio.
- ShadySpace, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I can't imagine how much more I'd be willing to go to school as a kid if my walk there consisted of singing cowboys and anthropomorphic fish encouraging and greeting me along the way.
- juxtapose, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I guess the idea of going over the top was that these kids will remember this for a lifetime especially when their car is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic.
- Zipko, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13In the words of Dennis Leary, "Life sucks, get a ***** helmet"
- samuelcotterall, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11They are what we call "Bungalows".
We're a pretty small nation. - samuelcotterall, on 10/25/2007, -0/+10I love being English.
- Fortuna, on 10/11/2007, -5/+15Sadly, amongst the carnival atmosphere, several children were lost to the sewers, presumably taken by Pennywise the clown.
- ninsei, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12@ decay
I walk 45 min to work every day. - gmurray, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13Deal with it.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8adults do tend to overdo it
when theyre explaining something serious/important to kids
lightening-up on the presentation can only be good
FTA
"If we’re going to get the message of sustainability drilled home to kids we’re probably going to have to make it as wacky and fun as we possibly can. And that’s because it’s just too serious and potentially overwhelming a topic for many of them to digest in any other way." - tehgoatman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9@ninsei
Sounds like you need a bike - Urusai, on 10/25/2007, -1/+8I thought all British children took the Hogwarts Express to school.
- yamyogurt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Teaching kids to walk in the middle of the road, sounds good to me.
- Godlesswanderer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Nice idea. I have to walk for half an hour to college on most mornings, it'd make a nice change.
- DangerDaz, on 10/25/2007, -0/+5@decay, I'm 15 and it takes me 15 minutes to get to school in the car, I walk home from school which takes me 45 minutes and i've never complained. I can't bare the run down public transport in this area.
- printenv, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Biggest problem is your going to be kinda stinky when you get to work after a 45 min walk. Especially in the summer when it is 95 degrees out with 90-100% humidity. I currently bike to work most days (except rainy days or days I have to be somewhere mid day) and I have to say that being able to shower is the biggest thing that one needs at the end (if it is of some distance). However, I have to say that biking to work for me has been wonderful in getting me off my fat ass and making it into a less fat ass. Plus, you get to work out w/o taking up that much extra time from actually driving to and from work (half an hour extra). Kinda sweet, makes me feel efficient too.
- mahdaeng, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4@decay
yeah - i can see that walking for 45 minutes straight would be a real hardship - ChronicColonic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I am not certain, but I believe I see the Teletubbies in the background of that picture.
- pagancollective, on 10/11/2007, -8/+11@tocs
If you thought your first comment was dug down quickly... - st00dy, on 10/25/2007, -0/+3just wanted to pop in here and mark the day that my little corner of England made the digg frontpage.
having said that, i haven't got a bloody clue where Rudyard Kipling primary school is... - hobophobe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/magazine/20Curitiba-t.html This article from the NYTimes Magazine mentions a similar change that Curitiba, Brazil made back in 1972. They turned a six block area into a pedestrian zone in three days.
To wit: "Some diehard motorists, however, sulked. Lerner heard that a group of them were planning to disregard the prohibition and drive their cars into the street on a Saturday morning. So he contrived an unbreachable defense. With the cooperation of the city’s teachers and a donation of rolls of newsprint and boxes of paint, on that morning he assembled several hundred children in the street, where they sat and drew pictures. 'It was to say, ‘This is being done for children and their parents — don’t even think of putting cars there,'"
The neat thing is that the impromptu gathering of children to compel the pedestrian zone to sustain has continued. Children still gather and draw there to this day. Not just for a week, for over 30 years. - dignon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3What the hell is so "crazy" about this? Sounds like an awesome idea and looks great. We should do this to all our streets.
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9And how many vehicles did it require to haul all that down there, lay it out... trim it up.... etc?
- smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2i live in the suburbs and the public transportation here is horrible. last semester i didn't have a car so i had to take the bus to the community college, which is normally a 15-20 minute drive away. the buses here run every 15 minutes, but to get to the campus, there's a second bus i have to take which only runs every 30 minutes. so i basically had to be at the bus stop an hour and a half before my class in order to make it on time--one day i left for the bus stop across the street an hour before class and ended up an hour late.
- mahdaeng, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@spiffytech
get up earlier - yorkie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Not the only place in the UK with the same idea ..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6687089.stm - pagancollective, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Awesome idea, I wonder how expensive it was. The final product looks so great it had to be pretty pricey.
- nick111, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I lived in Brighton for 7 years - no idea where this is - though I can tell by the houses that it's somewhere way out in the suburbs.
Anywhere within a two mile radius of the centre has utterly insane parking problems. If you tried to do something like this within that radius there would be physical punchups in the street. I was living near Seven-Dials... I had a 10 MONTH waiting list before I could get resident's parking - in the meantime I had to park a couple of miles away - outside someone else's house... and it would take about 45 minutes to find a space because everyone else on waiting lists was parking there as well.
And Brighton isn't as bad as London.
The UK has fairly serious transport problems. The average speed of traffic in central London was actually faster in the Victorian Era when the fastest thing was a horse. The whole thing needs a massive re-think.
And Brighton? Yea, I got rid of my car and walked everywhere. It was great. - DaleoftheUK, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Here in the UK they'll call that a road resurfacing and leave it there for the next 10years.
- SwissCamel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Let me guess, did we get all upset over paedophiles or something? Now to read the article....
- firedrillduckie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I think "Walk to School week" would be a great idea...
if I didn't live 15 miles away from the school, and if my backpack didn't weigh more than 1/3 of my weight. - Knowbuddy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1he means fat kids across the world stood up in protest, then immediately sat back down, panting heavily.
- SGIsus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1haha good old Brighton by the seaside... my heart filled with pride when i saw this.
I don't have a clue where it is either... woodingdean/ovingdean area, maybe?...
but yeah... i want that road... - jclarke, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Yeah its a nice idea, but if the idea is to go greener i think they should have left the fake studf out. how much pollution is created when making the fake grass and trees?
- esc27, on 10/11/2007, -2/+245 min is nothing... If you aren't carrying 20+ pounds of books (especially for younger people,) it is not raining, the temp is above 40F and below 90F, etc.
- untakenname, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1what about people who can't drive to work now because the road outside their house is now covered in vegetation?
- PixelVision, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2a 45 minute walk is nothing. When I was at school I used to cycle and in the autumn the rain would put loads of branches n stuff into the cycle lane so pretty often I'd get a flat tyre. A 30 minute ride became a 2 hour walk pushing a bike. Did I complain? No, because I missed assembly which is the most ridiculous concept that schools adhere to. Kids don't need to be told things in 1 room, they have their own teachers you know!
If kids would walk more then perhaps they wouldn't be so fat.
/cliché - kahakauai, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2@tocsinfilms and @jasoninoakland
Argueing online is like the special olympics... win or lose, your still retarded.
Have a nice day :) - fugazi, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Do those houses look small or is it just me?
- flyinghigh91, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0imagine being high and going to school to see that!
- kidd3ckz, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4I walked 2 hours yesterday and my ball hair wove itself together.
I'm fine now tho, I only had $1.35 for a bus and it costs $1.50.
It came undone btw, in case ur worried about me. I'm seriously OK. - AriaStar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2This is kind of creepy.
I'm getting this mental image of the Starburst Berrys & Cream elf-thing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvhnRAd4V0&mode=related&search=) frolicking through there doing naughty things to all the mommies and little boys. - themastersb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Seems inspired by that car commercial.
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