Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[ijmorlan]

Taxi's do, certainly a minivan, but while it might be legal, I'm not comfortable having a taxi driver drive my toddler up the 401 with no car seat.

As an aside, last time I took a taxi from the airport....before the UP...the driver started operating all their electronic equipment in the middle of the 427....and while I would have liked to have gotten out of the vehicle immediately I figured a distracted driver was better than standing in the middle of a 12 lane expressway. I did not tip.

I see that taxi drivers are exempt from the car-seat law, though at least Aeroport Taxi does provide them. The whole car seat thing makes cars more complicated, though maybe cars should be complicated in general. It sort of is unfortunate in that it makes non-owned cars in particular more complicated.

There is a lot about modern life that makes kids more complicated, just to turn it around a bit. And small vehicles are a significant part of that. Public transit and active transportation are inherently much more kid-friendly. Although vehicles (again) lead to active transportation being another problem for kids where proper infrastructure is not provided.