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Re:Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’ by pound on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:41PM (#16962687)
If that would be in San Francisco - they would be full of used syringes and aggressive psychos - not really suitable places to play in
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Re:Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’ by readams on Monday April 30, 2018 @05:55PM (#16962781)
That's a problem created by a different breed of well-intentioned idiocy around homeless policy.
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Re:Los Angeles Tests the Power of ‘Play Streets’ by dionidium on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:06AM (#16967601)
Well-intentioned idiocy is handing over cities to cars so completely that average people can barely remember what a city is or could be without them -- so completely that the temporary closing of 15 minor streets for another use could be described as "destroying transportation infrastructure."
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