Comment by blablablame

I'm a bit younger but also used to walk to school when I was little, but now with a kid, I probably wouldn't let him do the same trip as I did. Growing up, my town had like 2-3 main roads where people tended to drive slow (roads werent that good, holes, etc). I had to cross just one street to get to school (bit less than a mile). Now, it would have been 6 crossings in roads that idiots speed at 70+km/h easily (limit is 40km/h) because their cars now can get to 100km/h in seconds and for whatever reason, they do it (vs growing up and having a car that could actually get to 100km/h was a feat that took a very long road and a few minutes)