Reply #3: *sigh* [View All]

[sandnsea]

One of my daughter's best friend hit and killed the brother of another one of their best friends because our city won't install a light where all the kids cross the highway. Never mind that the intersection leads straight to the middle school and high school, tourists get mad if they have to stop at too many lights in a town, so the state says no. Consequently, kids on this side of the highway don't go to the skate park on the other side of the highway.

We do have a little lot sized "pocket park" though. It is so tacky that I don't think anybody actually takes their kids to it. You certainly wouldn't let them go alone, who knows what kind of tweaker might be there. Same with alot of our bike paths. We lost an old man a few months ago, everybody searched for him. He had fallen down a ravine and a teen-ager found him several days later. Thank god, but we all know the kid was there smoking pot because that's where they go to do that.

And this is a town of 7,000.

Yes, you do need experts to create cities and public areas that encourage community interaction. Sometimes it's putting a fence up, sometimes it's taking one down. How a path is laid out can encourage people to use it, or avoid it. A terrible shame to spend thousands of dollars on something that people find unfriendly.

Times have changed.