# I Pit School Zone Speed Limits! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054 "2009-09-22T06:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/41 "2009-09-24T04:48:08Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > There are school zones on the highway? In semi-rural/rural areas, you can have roads at 55 between towns with a school somewhere along the way. There’s just that situation in the area I live in. ---
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/42 "2009-09-24T05:12:13Z")
> [@Normal\_Phase](#): > > Ah, schadenfreude, how I love you. > > I live opposite a school zone myself. It’s definitely entertainment. You’d’ve prolly liked this story: > **[TV crew learns the lesson of its story](https://lasvegassun.com/news/2009/aug/22/tv-crew-learns-lesson-its-story/)** > > One of the TV news crews should have paid more attention when the Clark County School District held its annual back-to-school news conference at Adcock Elementary to warn drivers to slow down around campuses. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/43 "2009-09-24T13:52:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [sub]FWIW, I don’t get the outrage over school-zones, at least time-limited ones. Just the whole, “THINK OF THE CHILDREN” bullshit.[/sub] I don’t get it. Isn’t school zones one of the few things which are genuinely and rationally done “for the children”? For what other reason do they exist? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/44 "2009-09-24T23:03:22Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I\ > [sub]FWIW, I don’t get the outrage over school-zones, at least time-limited ones. \[/sub] If I remember correctly, you don’t actually drive. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/45 "2009-09-25T02:43:11Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I don’t get it. Isn’t school zones one of the few things which are genuinely and rationally done “for the children”? For what other reason do they exist? I was referring to **Jettboy** ’s over-emotional bullshit. School zones are mere common sense. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If I remember correctly, you don’t actually drive. No, I don’t. What’s your point? ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/46 "2009-09-25T03:13:18Z")
Individual underground child-sized pneumatic tubes leading from each house to the school can whisk the kids back and forth. The government activates the tube only for addresses on the student rolls. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/47 "2009-09-25T04:56:35Z")
If you want to see danger to school children, just follow a school bus for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Rumor\_Watkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@Rumor\_Watkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rumor_Watkins)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/48 "2009-09-25T14:38:30Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > If a school zone speed limit saves _one_ single, solitary child from being run over it’s completely worth the sacrifice of you —or others of a similar mindset— being inconvenienced for 45 seconds. unfortunately that’s not how public policy choices are made. with this stunning display of logic, speed limits should therefore be reduced to 15 mph wherever a solitary child may get run over. namely, every residential street. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/49 "2009-09-25T18:14:24Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I\ > No, I don’t. What’s your point? My point is that your lack of driving might be why you don’t get the outrage over school zones. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054/50 "2009-09-25T22:31:58Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You know, shouting “DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN” is itself a pittable offense around here. Why should children be taught that traffic itself has to slow down just for them? Why not teach them to cross at the lights like adults have to? ITT: people who over estimate how reliable children are at not doing stupid things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-school-zone-speed-limits/511054.md?page=2)