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Mummy Az wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:47:03 GMT, Aaron <kemtek.1.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
<teenagers>
>>>Athena starts High School (year on the 29th of January. Fortunately
>>>we've been able to transfer them to the same school at the same time
>>>since the New School handles preschool to year 12. It's a great
>>>school although we're still trying to work out transport details - at
>>>this stage it looks like a permanent Taxi booking which will be
>>>expensive but better than 3 buses and a 90 minute commute each way for
>>>a 9 km (5 1/2 mile) journey!
>>
>>Where ARE the flying cars when you need them?
>
> Or even self-driving ones.
>
> I can't drive as my eyesight at best correction is too poor to get my
> licence (but too good to be classified as 'legally blind' and
> therefore able to get things like discounts on taxi fares <sigh>).
> Himself can't take them as the timing-thing is wrong for Him
> work-wise. The Goddesses can't get their driver's licences until they
> are 16 1/2. So unless we can find someone going our way who has room
> for 2 well-behaved Goddesses and would be happy to accept some cash
> money in return it will be taxis.

Are bicycles a (good weather) option? I biked at least that far for my
freshman year in high school (14 or 15 years old, in the USA). There was a
convenient and car-free bike path that could take me a good deal of the
way, which made the route much safer than going the whole way on roads.

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Megan
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:28:09 -0800, "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
<"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Mummy Az wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:47:03 GMT, Aaron <kemtek.1.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
><teenagers>
>>>>Athena starts High School (year on the 29th of January. Fortunately
>>>>we've been able to transfer them to the same school at the same time
>>>>since the New School handles preschool to year 12. It's a great
>>>>school although we're still trying to work out transport details - at
>>>>this stage it looks like a permanent Taxi booking which will be
>>>>expensive but better than 3 buses and a 90 minute commute each way for
>>>>a 9 km (5 1/2 mile) journey!
>>>
>>>Where ARE the flying cars when you need them?
>>
>> Or even self-driving ones.
>>
>> I can't drive as my eyesight at best correction is too poor to get my
>> licence (but too good to be classified as 'legally blind' and
>> therefore able to get things like discounts on taxi fares <sigh>).
>> Himself can't take them as the timing-thing is wrong for Him
>> work-wise. The Goddesses can't get their driver's licences until they
>> are 16 1/2. So unless we can find someone going our way who has room
>> for 2 well-behaved Goddesses and would be happy to accept some cash
>> money in return it will be taxis.
>
>Are bicycles a (good weather) option? I biked at least that far for my
>freshman year in high school (14 or 15 years old, in the USA). There was a
>convenient and car-free bike path that could take me a good deal of the
>way, which made the route much safer than going the whole way on roads.

Not up the EXTREMELY steep hills with very heavy traffic they would
have to follow. There is a 'bike path' marked but it's just the
half-metre of road closest to the sidewalk on the otherwise busy
roads. Not entirely safe for children to be riding on.

The hills are steep enough that a car, coasting down the hill under no
power, goes faster than the speed limit of 80 kph (50 mph). Himself
has tested it in our car. This is NOT a hill I want my 11 and 13 year
old kids to be riding down on bicycles!

Az