Gary Shipp, Sustrans national projects co-ordinator for education and young people claims it's the minority of students who want to be driven to school.
Mr. Heineman's son said that there were death threats against the family and that, for a time, he and his sister had to be driven to school by the state police, who kept sawed-off shotguns at hand.
"I hated that car so much that when I had to be driven to school in it I would lie on the floor and crawl out a block away so my school mates wouldn't see my shame," he recalled years later.
We curse our ancestors for fucking it up for us, but then remember that we were the generation that demanded to be driven to school, to have an increasing number of consoles and phones and bullshit gadgets.
We curse our ancestors for fucking it up for us, but then remember that we were the generation who demanded to be driven to school, to have all our Tesco Expresses conveniently lit up to guide us home on those dark nights, to have cheap jeans and nice holidays, quick food and warm kitchens.
Children are marginally more likely to be driven to school than walk unescorted with each additional household car owned, B=0.69, OR= 2.00, Wald χ (1)=3.80, p =.05.
