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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Downtown Silver Spring has some very busy streets, and a few pedestrian fatalities in the past few years.   Sometimes kids don't pay enough attention or take stupid risks because they don't truly understand they could get hit by a car or whatever.   A good number of adults and teens run across Colesville, Georgia, etc.  against the light.  If you're not paying attention, that serves as a cue that it's your turn to cross too.  [/quote]

Yep - not to mention that the Downtown Silver Spring outdoor mall area, with was just 2-3 blocks away from the park these kids were picked up in, has been the site of epic gang battles in the recent past -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/concerns-about-silver-spring-spur-consideration-of-curfew/2011/07/26/gIQAXiYobI_story.html.  I think a lot of the people supporting these parents don't quite have a sense of the geography and situation here. We're not talking about some quiet suburban neighborhood filled with kids and SAHMs. It's a major, traffic-filled urban center full of strangers.

And I say this as one who also had one of those 70s/80s free range childhoods and benefitted from it, and am sad that my kid won't get the same thing.  But hanging out in a park in the late afternoon as a 6 and 10 year old in Downtown Silver Spring is a FAR cry from my free range childhood, which took place in practically car-free cul de sac with dozens of kids out at any one time, and neighborhood parents who knew all of us.  [/quote]

The page you link to doesn't work. [/quote]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/co...1/07/26/gIQAXiYobI_story.html

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Thanks. I would point out that the story is from nearly 4 years ago, and the area has changed quite a bit during that time. No one now would say "downtown Silver Spring is on the brink of failing."

Are you by any chance the former Silver Spring resident who moved to Olney? [/quote]

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