Public Transportation and Smart Growth

for all of their concern about children being killed in car accidents, I still see people driving with toddlers/kids in their lap in the driver's seat, and they are no safer in how they transport their children via bicycle. Other than toddlers in child bike seats, almost NO ONE wears a helmet here, and kids of various ages routinely ride on their parents' bikes standing up on the back of them, or sitting on the rack at the back.