[People] German kiddie traffic court?]
Kris Talley
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Subject: Re: [People] German kiddie traffic court?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 17:12:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alex Doty <al...@bicyclecoalition.org>
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There is an article in German at
http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article1006206/Warum-fahren-Sie-vor-der-Schule-so-schnell.html.
Google provides a rough translation at
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article1006206/Warum-fahren-Sie-vor-der-Schule-so-schnell.html&ei=JUoTSvCML4WHtgfBseSeBA&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article1006206/Warum-fahren-Sie-vor-der-Schule-so-schnell.html%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DXiZ
I can arrange for a better translation if you think it would be helpful.
Alex Doty
Executive Director
BICYCLE COALITION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA
100 S Broad St Suite 1355
Philadelphia PA 19110
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From: "Noah Budnick" <no...@transalt.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:57:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [People] German kiddie traffic court?
Does anyone have info on German kiddie traffic court?
I've head about this program there where police set-up a speed trap in
front of a school, and when they pull over drivers, the motorist has to
go before a journey of juniors and example why s/he was speeding.
This is what my friend who told me about it said:
A group of young kids plus a police officer, and I assume a teacher or
other chaperone, stands on the sidewalk near a school. The police pull
over speeders. Instead of giving them regular speeding tickets, they're
forced to explain to the group of kids why they were speeding in front
of the school. I don't remember whether the kids deliberated and decided
whether or not to give the drivers real or fake tickets. Perhaps they
made them take literature on why speeding is bad. Since they're small
kids, I'm guessing they probably weren't outside for too long. I may
also be misremembering, but I seem to recall that many of the drivers
sent to kiddie court were parents of kids at the school. I would think
that this would be much more effective than doing it somewhere away from
the school, because they will be reminded of the experience every time
they see these kids again at the school.
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leads.
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Noah
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