Transportation
What We Lose When Kids Can't Play in Their Own Streets
A U.K. initiative paints a vivid picture of what can happen when families don't have to worry about passing cars.
This is the point we have come to in much of the developed world: The freedom for a child to walk out the door and skip rope or play catch is something that has to be scheduled, organized, and officially permitted.
That was my first thought after watching the video below on the website of Playing Out, a wonderful initiative based in the United Kingdom that encourages neighborhoods to open their streets for children’s play using a simple four-step process that they outline on their website. Wonderful, and poignant too.