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Originally Posted by Radster
Another good one I read a couple days ago, not sure which city councillor it was, but he was saying how he is disappointed that this playground will aim to beat the world record for longest monkey bars, all while him and the city have been advocating to NOT include monkey bars in new playground developments in Ottawa as its a huge safety issue.
If these people could only see they type of playgrounds I was used to in 80s communist Poland, monkey bars were probably the safest feature of all in the playgrounds. hahaha How times have changed!
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My old schoolyard playground got a safety audit about ten years ago.
Everything was removed. Monkey bars, slide, cool-ass wooden clambering structure, climbing "dome" thingie, seesaws. (The merry-go-round had already long since been removed; as little kids, the big kids would spin us around until someone barfed; as big kids, we passed the tradition on to little kids.)
Don't know what the kids do now... Go down to the river and skip rocks, I suppose.