| Re: Let children play in car parks, say health chiefs after hundreds of school sports fields are axed |
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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: BrimstoneBrimstone Date: Aug 23, 2008 00:28
Doug wrote:
> On 22 Aug, 21:22, Conor hotmail.com> wrote:>>> Great! Since motorists have literally driven children from our
>>> streets
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>> Wrong. That was the eco-loonies stopping new houses being built on
>> greenfield sites so the playing fields became high value land, were
>> sold off and built on.
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> That came later. First there was car proliferation driving kids off
> the streets then more recently the sell off of playing fields, which
> have to be reached by road anyway.
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> There are plenty of historical photographs showing kids playing in
> empty streets without a single parked car in sight and hardly any
> through traffic. You would be very hard pressed to find a similar
> situation today.
Quite true Doug. That's because of people like you who went out and bought a
car simply because you could and now you've infected the following
generations with the same attitude. I hope you're pleased with yourself.
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