20 minutes on foot, 20 minutes on a tram, 10 more minutes on foot. Massive opportunities to get off course and end up somewhere else. Good times.
How Did You Travel to School?
Opinions, art, debate
Opinions, art, debate
20 minutes on foot, 20 minutes on a tram, 10 more minutes on foot. Massive opportunities to get off course and end up somewhere else. Good times.
Clarissa's Blog 
I rather enjoyed it. Used to meet a lot of schoolmates and teachers on the way to/from school. Read a lot of books – I perfected the art of reading while walking and standing in an overfilled tram. Good times.
LikeLike
Also a tram! I see a kindred soul.
LikeLike
15 min on foot plus
45 min on subway plus
5 min on foot.
alternatives were 5-6mi walk, other trains, over an hour on a bus plus 10 min walk. Had so much fun exploring after school.
LikeLike
Wow, everyone took a long time to get to school. I took the bus on the street behind our apartment building and it was a ten-minute drive. In high school, the bus took twenty minutes. It was one of those big yellow buses like on TV
LikeLike
Rode to school with Mom.
Sister drove me.
Took the bus.
Rode there with the 2nd Grade teacher.
Drove myself + sibling.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Short walk to the bus stop but then road a school buss grades 1-12. The longest distance was about 15 miles but probably took an hour each way because of all the stops. Then two years riding a school bus to a junior collage; the rest of my school years I walked while living on campus.
LikeLike
Before we moved, maybe about a half mile across the prairie…but despite my lttle sister’s tales, it certainly wasn’t uphill both ways ;-D
LikeLiked by 1 person
several minutes walk, 20 minutes by a city bus, several minutes walk
LikeLike
Primary school, mum drove me (4km away from where we lived).
Secondary and high, I either walked (30min) or took a tram (10 min)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Another tram person!
We rule.
LikeLike
my mom drove me or we walked the 20 min.
in middle school we took a school bus and it took 30 min bc of all the stops
in high school I walked and it took 5-10min. My 3rd year I had a friend pick me and a few friends up. My last year I drove my own car and picked up friends but definitely didn’t make trouble…
my favorite memories were actually walking home from school with my sister and/or friends bc we would stop at the market and buy treats and generally cause a ruckus. Large groups of young (elementary age) kids walking home together. I don’t see that anymore. My kids’ school will not let the kids go without a someone picking them up if they’re not taking a school bus.
LikeLiked by 1 person
When I was in lower school my mom drove us. (I ended up going to 3 different schools during this period.) The 1st school was roughly 12 to 15 mins out by car, the 2nd one was probably about the same, and the 3rd one was roughly 8 mins or so by car.
Middle school my mom drove us and it was roughly 10 to 12 mins or so by car.
High school I drove myself and my sister. Same building, but only about 8 to 10 minutes as I drive faster.
Local College I drove roughly 10 minutes to get there.
Main college I lived in the dorms so I walked to class, and it was probably 8 to 15 mins by foot getting to class depending on where you were going.
LikeLike
“20 minutes on foot, 20 minutes on a tram, 10 more minutes on foot”
Why so far? I though soviet public transit would be similar to other countries in the region where 20 minutes by foot seems… pretty far. I guess a child will walk more slowly than adult but weird. I’m no more than 5 minutes away from a couple of different bus stops and a streetcar stop… under ten minutes to a streetcar and bus end station.
Onto the question. Theoretically we lived too close to the school to qualify for a bus but there was a major…. hazard (Highway 41 – the Tamiami Trail) between us and school and so there was a bus ten or so minute walk away… but the household wasn’t really orderly enough to ensure we were out the door in time so my mother usually ended up driving us (in a housecoat with a cup of coffee on the dashboard).
I disliked the bus ride in the afternoon and usually skipped it and walked home, 2.5 miles or thereabouts depending on how many detours I took. Sometimes I walked a mile or so in the other direction to hang out in and around (more around than in) where parents worked to wait until they would go home (there was a small shopping center and a park nearby so it wasn’t boring there).
Last couple of years of high school I drove a car. True to local traditions it was a beater you wouldn’t use to take a pig to a dog fight. Starting consistently was not one of its talents but sometimes in senior year I’d go home for lunch since the school started a ‘closed campus’ policy and everybody wanted to Stand Up to the Man…
LikeLiked by 1 person
I couldn’t have taken a trolley bus to get to the tram but those were always so full that it was easier to walk than try to squeeze into one.
Most Soviet children went to the schools they were assigned to based on where they lived, so nobody had to travel that far. I, however, went to the “specialized English school”, and there were only two of those in the entire city of Kharkiv, so you had to travel quite a bit to get there.
Thank you for your story, I loved it. It made me feel like I almost was there myself.
LikeLike
There was a short stretch where I went to summerschool, and the bus ride home was so awful that I located an acquaintance also at summerschool, who had a car, and contributed some of my babysitting money to his gas fund, to hitch home.
LikeLiked by 2 people