We tried BST all year round. Most people hated it and the number of children killed on accidents rose. Most politicians are too young to remember, I suppose.
I hated having to cycle to school in the dark as well as cycling home in the dark. We called it British Silly Time at the school where I was. I think that even now, it will be just as dark in the morning.
But how many children still cycle to school? Cycling may have been normal when you were a child, but less than 2% of kids do it now (and of those 1.6% or whatever it is, what are the odds that they do it all year round even through the winter solstice?)
OK, it would be good if kids cycled more, but at the moment, it's a pretty rare thing to do. One of the many many things that has changed.
(I am too young to remember year-round BST, but I still had to go to and from school in the dark in the winter, because I lived in a rural area and school was just a long way away.)
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Date: 2011-11-04 02:40 pm (UTC)OK, it would be good if kids cycled more, but at the moment, it's a pretty rare thing to do. One of the many many things that has changed.
(I am too young to remember year-round BST, but I still had to go to and from school in the dark in the winter, because I lived in a rural area and school was just a long way away.)