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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t a street that’s closed to through traffic basically a publicly funded shared driveway?[/quote]

No, it's a street that people can comfortably use while not in a car. [/quote]

In AU Park where I see them, all the slow streets could be comfortably navigated while not in a car before the barriers went up.[/quote]

"comfortably navigated" by whom?[/quote]

Pedestrians, bicyclists, scootering kids, etc. These are not busy streets to start with. [/quote]

So, pedestrians, bicyclists, scootering kids can comfortable be in (not cross) the streets, even when they're not slow streets? You'd have been comfortable teaching your four-year-old how to ride a bike in those streets last year? Or letting your five-year-old go by themselves to visit their friend on the other side of the street at the other end of the block? Or letting your six-year-old play kickball in those streets?[/quote]

Children should not be playing kickball in any streets. [b]That’s not their purpose.[/b] I taught my kids to ride their bikes on the sidewalk and at the park a few blocks away. [/quote]

Says who? We're talking about neighborhood streets, right? Why shouldn't streets belong to everyone, including neighborhood kids playing kickball?[/quote]

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