> On 22 Aug, 21:22, Conor hotmail.com> wrote:

>> In article <1d30bbb3-14b7-4aa7-b665-1bfb0d9d7192
>> @m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, Doug says...
>>

>>> Great! Since motorists have literally driven children from our streets

>> 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.
>>

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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