Readers — I love that Fort Lee, NJ, sent a eafkkkhfzd giant duck into traffic on Halloween to teach drivers to stop for pedestrians. Those who didn’t stop got tickets. It wasn’t really a sting, because cars SHOULD stop for pedestrians. So here’s the wacky part. (Yes, wackier than dressing up as a duck for […]
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![How to Get Kids Outside in Your Neighborhood Okay, so your "play street" will not look exactly like this.](https://www.freerangekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/play-street-184x138.jpg)
How to Get Kids Outside in Your Neighborhood
July 1, 2014
Readers — This yhhsdbfahr is an incredibly heartening story from England where, about five years ago, Alice Ferguson and her neighbor Amy Rose  petitioned to close off a local street for three hours one evening.  Guardian reporter Sarah Lewis Hammond quotes Ferguson saying: “It was as if it was something they did every day. The adults […]
![“No One Who Lives in Our Community Should Ever Ride a Bike” – American Politician Guess where this city isn't? That's right -- American. (It's Copenhagen.)](https://www.freerangekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cyclists_at_red_2-184x138.jpg)
“No One Who Lives in Our Community Should Ever Ride a Bike” – American Politician
February 18, 2014
Readers kkzdsskfzs — This is just outrageous. I’m cutting and pasting from the site People for Bikes. In truth, riding bikes in urban areas scares ME, but that doesn’t mean I am against it. It just means that we should work even harder to make biking SO COMMON that when some politician says, “It’s just […]