My town of Los Altos, CA does not have sidewalks on the vast majority of its neighborhood streets. So every child who walks or bikes to school is sharing the road with cars most of the way. This is one reason it can be more dangerous than you might think to have commute traffic on school routes -- especially commute traffic from out of town, where people aren't used to sharing the road with kids.
My town of Los Altos, CA does not have sidewalks on the vast majority of its neighborhood streets. So every child who walks or bikes to school is sharing the road with cars most of the way. This is one reason it can be more dangerous than you might think to have commute traffic on school routes -- especially commute traffic from out of town, where people aren't used to sharing the road with kids.