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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by piotr1212 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:25AM (#20623291)
> yeah, now imaging you have two of them going to two different schools, each 40 minutes walking distance from home, different directions and your office in somewhere else too.

I grew up in a small village (+-70k) in the Netherlands, we had 4 schools within 15 min walking distance and I think twice as many with 15 min cycling distance (all kids go to school by bike here). Why would you send your kids to schools 40 minutes walking distance from home?

edit: added number of inhabitants of the village

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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by dagw on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:29AM (#20623906)
Why would you send your kids to schools 40 minutes walking distance from home?

Some times you don't have a choice. Happened to a friend of mine here in Sweden. Their first kid got into the school closest to home. When it was the second kids turn that school was 'full' and they got sent to a school 10 km in the exact opposite direction.

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Re:Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality by konart on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:58AM (#20632515)
My previous answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20632459
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