Get outside kids, enjoy the fresh air with your friends!
Just kidding, stay the F inside.
The pandemic was great for my city (San Francisco) in this regard—they shut/heavily discouraged a bunch of streets to through traffic for a number of “slow streets.” Kids and adults alike run, bike, scooter, etc. in the middle of these streets. Obviously people love them, so they remained after the pandemic (at least, the one’s I’m familiar with remain).
It’s not a full-on car ban, but it’s a start!
Don’t you know our cities are for cars not people?
“Why do the children always have screens in front of them? Back in my day”
Same person:
“You’re not taking my beautiful stroad away from me, hippie!”
Why are obesity rates so high??
Plus parks hurt developers and raise property taxes.
Might be nice if we started preparing some old fashioned machinery from 1789.
Yes, but that’s a different group. The boomers and billionaires do form an overlapping Venn diagram but there’s a lot of boomers who are just plain ignorant.
Mississauga has observed the ban since 1979. It was amended in 2010 to also include the prohibition of sporting equipment, like hockey and basketball nets, on the roadway.
They rejected a removal of the ban. Carbrains have banned it 40 years ago.
