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Some of the kids are out on "motorized" bicycles going 30+ down the street...no helmet, no plates, no safety lights. Saw a kid on a busy 4-lane street pop a wheelie for 50 yards in traffic. Skillful, but pretty f-king stupid.

They have no place to go like when we were kids we've been taken over by for profit Anti Kid city Counsels since Republican started really fuck'N our nation over late 80's defunding school activity camps sports open trails ++ strait to No trespassing go straight to the mall & spend $$ ish

Also, kids can't freely roam the neighborhood, play in their front yards, the park, ride their bike to the next block to their best friend to play video games, or the convenience store. Parents; "They spend too much time on their phones." What else can they do?

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Never forget to talk about Melania too! Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for $1B over ‘false, defamatory’ allegations linking her to Jeffrey Epstein

What's with the people bringing up gun violence? Yeah, it is a problem. We can address both issues

The nation that constantly moans about keeping children safe is really doing a piss poor job at it huh. Pedophiles running rampant, gun violence in schools, healthcare and vaccinations under threat… bravo America.

Great conclusion.

Here in California the death rate of kids is about to skyrocket due to the speed of the electric scooters, bikes and skateboards. Couple the increased speed with kids running stop signs, riding on the wrong side of the street and passing cars and the result is going to be splattered kids.

adjacent non-arterials often aren't connected or don't have room

Got a point

Sad, but true.

I think this data justifies our concerns.

Few kids are out because Republicans and Evangelicals have turned USA into a killing grounds. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Fewer kids are out and about - because of the way newer roads, suburbs and cities are designed, and what the planners hope to achieve. So no, my children are not out running and biking on the giant new parkway the city needed in order to lure an Amazon mega warehouse into our area.

The 90s

I think it's because of the public safety video called "And one got fat" look it up on YouTube. It's awesome

I’ve lived in an extremely crowded, pedestrian-centered city neighborhood and a suburban one - and I’m far more afraid of my kids trying to meet friends where cars are the main transportation. They can’t easily get to each other without their bikes - but drivers are openly hostile to cyclists.

Why are you writing about this when you can simply ask your boss to call Assolini. Ya fucking vultures should change the name to Pyongyang Post.

This makes sense. We all rode bikes as kids but now I rarely see kids riding bikes to school etc. most of the bikers around me are transients or drug dealers. Sometimes I see an adult cyclist too.

Wait for a raise. 2 kids dead in my neighborhood in the past 3 years with E-bikes I bet they counted those as motor bikes and not regular ones

Come on now. Life happens. Shitty things happen. There's no magic wand for that. The point is kids aren't going outside because of fear imposed on them. That's true. Kids are FAR less likely to be hit by cars today than in the past even thought there's FAR more vehicles. But fear sells.

There isn't one goddammed thing in this world that wouldn't be better with less people. That's one of the prime factors that made the middle of the last century so good--space.

"Kids need Freedom" yet by putting the National Guard in their City or Town freedom is restricted.

EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN

That's why we need parks and recreation as well as good footpaths.

A huge hurdle in my kid getting to school independently wasn’t a long metro ride, it was crossing one busy street.

We should not accept dangerous roads. Cars have been around for more than 100 years that’s long enough to create safe roads.

It saddens me to know kids today can’t enjoy riding on the roads because of selfish impatience from drivers! More laws need to be passed to protect CYCLISTS!

I know a senior citizen who ended up in the hospital after being bashed into by a speeding cyclist. Whether in a vehicle or on foot, I stay as far the fuck away from you assholes as possible.

They’re also a selfish lot who will demand residential streets be blocked off for their cycling safety and enjoyment while dismissing residents’ concerns about emergency-response vehicles getting through. They’ll bully & insult a cancer patient with an oxygen bottle at community hearings!

I’d like to know what changed in the drivers that they don’t see us as humans.

It's perplexing; I get it all the time. Like drivers pay attention to people crossing the street. And sidewalks aren't wide enough for everyone nor great to ride on. Even at 12 mph, bikes are still way faster than walkers. Drivers just perceive bikes to be in their way. Impatience. I still ride.

Why are you in the middle of the road? That's extremely dangerous.

And motorcyclists have armour plated gloves!

killed by obesity instead

Absolutely true the streets used to be crowded with kids on bikes and playing when I was young now they're like an extinct being that you glimpse every once in awhile it's very sad they are closed off they don't know how to communicate always on their stupid phone brain rot

We devote entire podcasts, news shows, and programs to essentially banning smartphones and social media. When the evidence that people's safe non-motor-vehicle travel options are extremely limited if at all available, is overwhelming. Part of my paper.

Maybe more realistically, they'll just stop reporting the statistics at all :(

Not everyone has missed your sarcasm ..

We need walkable cities and communities. As cities grew, they became dominated by cars- to the point where some areas don't have sidewalks at all. Even if they do, often there's no destination to walk to- no parks, no shops, for example.

They've been told that strangers are after them since birth

In 2025, even the good news comes with a side order of bad news.

Another factor is that cars of today have crumple zones and use lighter materials for production,, therefore lessening the damage

It's really sad because if they had more accessibility features like sidewalks set away from the streets and just more pedestrian friendly areas cities could be more oriented towards people and not their cars.

Possibly, injuries tied to e-bikes have risen sharply, with a 2023 CPSC report showing a 70% increase in micromobility-related ER visits since 2017. Do you think better bike lane infrastructure could offset that risk?

The needs and even the desires of Anyone who would prefer to not exercise the special privilege granted to some people of using a car should be prioritized over the needs of anyone wanting to exercise such a privilege.

You're absolutely right!

The 6 foot tall hoods on the 15 foot long trucks with the 50,000,000 lumen headlights all to carry around a 3.5 foot bed that only ever carries groceries needed to be dealt with a decade ago, too. I cannot believe these stupid fucking trucks people drive. Meanwhile a kei truck has a bigger bed...

Sadly, I speak from experience in the instances I mentioned. 😒

Kids then were always enjoined to “Stay on the sidewalk!” whether walking, running or biking.

yeah man, you ever seen a video game from the 70s?

Did I just fully agree with the WhiteWash - ington Post on something? And I didn't even read the article... It's true though: the school in my parents' 'hood is full to the brim with pupils who get helicoptered up daily; none of them do kid stuff outside. It's like a retirement community.

As one of those 90's teen that rode my everywhere and long distances. I'm also one of the kids that got hit by a car messed up my bike(tacoed my front wheel), and pretty scraped up(bike and I)

Smart kids. Dont trust anyone.

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Also, much much easier to avoid a sidewalk collision between a cyclist and pedestrian. But if they do collide, probably bruises or worst case a bone fracture. Whereas a road collision between an automobile and a cyclist is harder to avoid and far more lethal for the cyclist.

*kill you(don't need to censor here); but also I do it because the sidewalk dips, bumps from over grown trees, and has obstacles such as signs and trash and trees. As long as drivers behave themself, biking 20mph in the road is vastly superior

But if we aren’t a culture driven to the road by necessity how will the petroleum industry survive 🥺 it simply isn’t enough to make abundantly utilitarian plastic with it, we have to burn up every drop of fossil fuel in existence and release into the atmosphere for our own good. 🔥🔥🔥

I would love to see densely populated places significantly restrict personal use vehicles. Less roads, more green space. Less parking, more housing.

I’d generally say random kidnappings are at a low and people who they know are the main threats, but that is true ICE agents are normalizing it

It's sad world we live in. I think our children were the last generation to play outside until the street lights came on, or dad whistled. They went to the store by themselves at an early age. They rode their bikes until their knees were skinned. We drank water from a hose. Kids will never know 😞

If you were to go to a random suburb and start asking people about their neighbors, it's likely that the only ones who would be able to tell you anything are people who have next-door neighbors who have kids in the same grade as theirs. And even then it's not guaranteed.

I had a feeling when I got my first Intellivision that this was an elaborate plot to keep me out of the dangerous fresh air.

Exactly! Parents cop so much flak for letting their kids go anywhere unattended. Roads are a problem but I wouldn’t even say they’re the biggest problem in this issue.

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Urban sprawl is real. The rural roads where I rode my bike hundreds of miles as a kid (in the 60’s) are now busy urban streets with no bike lanes.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!

Kids nothing, I've had two adult friends permantly injured getting hit by cars while riding bikes. Cars hitting cars, houses, you name it. The ultimate freedom machine not so much as they ever multiply & crowd public space. Let the killing CO2 spewing machines take over, or choose mass transit.

also divides people

Agreed. Kids today have so many things they would rather do inside. I live in a smaller town in Iowa with very little traffic and rarely see kids out playing

You couldn't keep me in the house when I was a kid. Worst punishment ever was being grounded and stuck in the house.

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What has happened to your paper?

My number one concern in my suburban neighborhood: Amazon, uber eats, door dash, et. al delivery drivers. I get we’re all just trying to make a living- but their incentive to cut down times directly endangers pedestrians/children in a way that didn’t exist 10 years ago.

As an aside, no brakes (fixed gear) bike in Mexico City. youtube.com/shorts/Ee0jE...

Trump believes Mexico City is some violent hellhole. Reality: youtu.be/aavsO82FpXk?...

Trump insulted Mexico City in the last few days. A father with his daughter, September 2019. Mexico City closes major streets to cars and people then use the streets to bike, skate, walk, jog etc.).

kids that scare me, the ones on scooters, riding down middle of road is not a common sense idea

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It’s hotter today too. No kids out in my area until after five, and then they don’t roam much. Maybe around the block.

There’s no funding/capital to (re)design. Americans are already living in obsolete homes, or simply cannot afford one. Nothing’s going to get shuffled around or redesigned because there’s no immediate, obvious ROI in it; that’s our clear-eyed reality for at least the next four years sorry to say.

pedaling

In a traffic contest between pedestrians, cyclists, and autos .. the auto comes out on top every time; every time. Now they’re ’combining’ cycling lanes with acceleration/deceleration/turn lanes?? What civil engineer thought that dumbassery would work?

Kids quit playing outside too. They are also not allowed out of the parents sight.

My neighborhood is full of kids and it's rare I see or hear any outside playing.

Unfortunately, adults are getting hit all the time because there is no requirement to take a Rules of the Road test.

On the flip side, certain highway sections should give up the HOV lane for a high-speed lane that is only for cars with the most advanced, and infrastructure-connected, safety features (I don't call it self-driving because hands should always be on the wheel and liability on the operator).

INSANE that society hasnt demanded this en masse. Everyone is asleep.

I can’t count how many times people have been hit by cars and trucks by walking on roads even in cross walks.

I believe that nature deprivation is a causal factor of many childhood conditions such as obesity, depression, ADHD, and addiction to video games and fast food. Take the kids for a walk in the woods. Find safe places they can be outside. Elders used to make us turn off TV and go outside and play.

My kids don't go anywhere because it's too fucking hot. Since they were young, they've spent fewer hours playing outside as each sunset gets progressively hotter, for longer periods of time.

ebikes are going to spike that number

The biggest clue that streets are not safer is that when COVID lockdowns happened, traffic fatalities *increased*. The reason traffic fatalities are not higher is because the roads are usually so congested with rush hour traffic jams that no one can build up enough speed to actually kill anyone.

Plenty of safety issues in schools to investigate, WaPo, if you’re interested. I hear they are connected to gun safety.

I’d love to see these numbers compared to the number of kids clients used off the ep$tien list.