Sam Salt:
There's many a parent around here drives a full 400 yards to take their
precious bundles to school,shameful.

We live less than 150 yards from the school so anything other than walking
(or scooting, as is my son's current preferred mode of transport) would be
worse than ludicrous.

However, I know several of the other parents that live not much further away
who drive to school every morning - I know this because often the closest
they can park is outside my house, so they end up spending all that time
battling the traffic and contributing to the pollution problem just to cut
about 100 yards off their walk. Absolutely insane.

d.