Walking to school

Govt works to make walking to school safer.:

"Dr Lomax-Smith says signs will be erected at strategic points to remind students to take care when crossing the road as part of targeted infrastructure improvements."

Yes, quite so. One teenage boy walked straight in front of my car today after school. I don't think he was even aware I was on the road or that he was actually crossing the road. He just walked straight across the road like he was walking across a field or something. I found that very worrying. Road rules and road awareness need to start at an early age, but it still doesn't solve the problem of children being abducted or taken on the way to and from school and we get cases every week. People look upon children and teenagers as targets for kidnapping. You can't put up a sign for that?! No kidnapping allowed? Abductions are out of bounds?

Where I have been in other countries , there are a lot more adults walking and so the children are automatically cared for. Here we drive. Getting to work usually involves driving. We need to get more adults out walking and on their bikes...but we have long distances to get to places here as I said before.