While nervous grownups, fed horror stories by the nightly news, forbid their ever-fatter their kids to walk or bike to school or a park, 80% of kids killed by cars are IN their parents' cars:

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/21/paranoid_parents_kill_cities/

Nervous delusions are now retarding America's return to real community after the wrong turn to suburbia.

Excellent article, goes well beyond what my blurb implies.

Rick
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Richard Risemberg
http://www.bicyclefixation.com
http://www.SustainableCityNews.com
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