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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
I agree that there is probably a heightened sense of paranoia around basically everything to do with our children, but to be fair CF, Calgary's population might have been 400k in your day. A city of 1.5M is a more complicated scenario, given the different routes and problems that might arise.
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Kids in Asia don't have any issues with even larger populations and much more complex bus routes. There are plenty of elementary school kids I saw getting on trains/buses in Japan and HK without problem.
Kids these days (even if I think it's excessive) have access to cell phones and Google maps. If they still can't figure out how to get home without all of that like we did as kids, I don't know what to say. Though maybe I can see an argument of more kids getting hit getting to the bus (just more pedestrians of that age in general on the roads) when road conditions are bad (icy, slick etc.).