Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

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.

You are right about that...I've never been so frustrated to see an elevator out of service as coming off an 8 hour flight, hour train ride, and now have to haul a stroller up a flight of stairs, but it's still easier than trying to sort out vehicles.

I'm curious what you mean by "small" vehicles? Certainly if you have a large number of children you'll need a vehicle with more capacity (minivans are great for this...carry more passengers than the gargantuan pickup trucks most are choosing to drive...many of them haul more too), but we *shouldn't* need large cars for 1-3 children. FWIW...we DO need a larger vehicle for children because our car seats are comically and inconveniently large. The car seat that Tessa's coworker had was....I kid you not...half the size of the one we have in Canada.