Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia

Caption notes

Not Just Bikes uses his family’s move to Amsterdam to discuss how neighborhood design can affect whether children can get around on their own. He distinguishes two barriers: parents may worry about road traffic, and even when they are willing to let a child walk, the destination may be too far away or the route may lack sidewalks. He also describes a feedback loop: when more parents drive their children because of traffic concerns, those trips add more cars to the road.