Nothing do with not protecting our children. Some of the playground zones are just beyond stupid. They are located on the far side of a field away from the road and the entire area is fenced. The probability of kid running into traffic tracking down an errant soccer pass for instance ---ZERO.
There are so many of those it's not funny. Pointless overkill. Some of them even on main transportation streets and inevitable the playground is empty as it's not enough a neighborhood with kids to begin with nor would any kid at that playground be at risk anyway.
There is one just around the corner from my house. Two steps and the kid would be right into traffic. Heck in those cases I would say put up speed bumps as big as the airport ones and I wouldn't complain but geez use common sense when deciding what's a playground zone.
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