On 5/19/2017 12:09 PM, wrote:

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I'd argue strongly with this one. Your other statements may be correct. But not this one in my part of the country. Or anywhere else except maybe, maybe Silicon Valley. Not even LA or San Diego where the weather is even better than San Fran.

My daughter was in the first class at a new middle school. The school
district apparently believed that no self-respecting parent would allow
their child to ride a bicycle to school because there are so many
parents that won't even let their kids walk one block. So they put in
one bike parking area and thought it would be more than enough. It was
OVERWHELMED with bicycles. They rushed to construct a second parking area.

At
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you can zoom in and see how many bicycles are there, upper left and
lower right. And this must have been a bad day because even though the
bike lots are pretty full, usually bikes are parked in other places,
like leaned against the chain link fences or locked to trees, because
there's not enough room. If you go northwest a bit you can see the
current Apple campus, adjacent to the school.

I scrolled over to the high school but the satellite image must have
been from a weekend as the campus has no cars and no bicycles. Every
Thursday I go to a Toastmasters meeting across from the school that
starts at the same time as school starts, and I end up riding with a lot
of high school students.

But the elementary school has very very few kids riding to school by
themselves though occasionally a parent is riding with a student.

I am surprised that other suburban areas are not similar to my city.