Could Parking Meters Solve Traffic Snafus Around Schools?

One blogger wonders if parking meters would help solve the morning and afternoon traffic jams by discouraging parents from driving their kids to school -- all the while lowering emissions and raising revenue for public education.

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March 21, 2007, 1:00 PM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

Duane Laird, a contributor to AboutMyPlanet.com, suggests that putting parking meters around schools might just be the answer for not one, but many problems.

"Hawthorne Elementary, like all schools, has a problem with too many cars dropping off children. Some mornings it is a regular traffic jam, and it certainly isn't safe for the children who walk to school...

"Parking meters on school grounds, and on the streets adjacent to schools would solve not one, but four problems."

"First, they would assuage people's guilt about driving their children to school...Secondly, the money from the meters could be used to fund school activities...Thirdly, it would encourage bicycling and walking..."

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