This is a common theme downtown - no skateboarding, or skating, or rollerblading. I guess for safety reasons? I really don't know the reason. I do know some people in Boise have bumper stickers that say "Skateboarding is not a crime." I know skateboarding has caused some controversy in the past, but I thought that was all over with. I didn't know skating was controversial, too. I guess strollers are still O-K. And wheeled suitcases.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Visiting Boise? Leave Skateboards at Home
This is a common theme downtown - no skateboarding, or skating, or rollerblading. I guess for safety reasons? I really don't know the reason. I do know some people in Boise have bumper stickers that say "Skateboarding is not a crime." I know skateboarding has caused some controversy in the past, but I thought that was all over with. I didn't know skating was controversial, too. I guess strollers are still O-K. And wheeled suitcases.
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There are a few spots where skateboarding is banned here in Hobart, but people still do it. The Supreme Court is just up the road from my workplace, and the kids still do it there despite police being regularly around!
ReplyDeleteHi Kris - do you know why they banned it in your town? You bring up a new thought for me, too. It may be the "wheels down zone" here is painted on the sidewalke, but it could be just an opinion, not a law or rule police could enforce.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a health and safety issue. They were probably scared about little old ladies getting knocked over or kids breaking their wrists.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of skate parks around Hobart, so I guess the authorities feel that the kids can’t complain too much. As a non-skater, I think that the balance is reasonably fair, it can get pretty annoying the clanking all day of people attempting tricks outside your window!
I didn't really think about the public safety zone - I saw some kids skateboarding on my street yesterday...they're weren't the "trick" kind of boarders, though, they were lucky to stay on the boards! We don't have a "wheels down zone" on my residential block.
ReplyDeleteThe big skateboard/rollerblade issue seemed to start when a number of bricks on the Grove were getting nicked and cracked, supposedly due to skateboarders. The people that paid for the bricks were getting p.o.'d about it and threw a fit in city hall. Then, once they decided to deepen the allowance for "sidewalk seating" for restaurants downtown, it became more of a so-called safety issue, so the core of Boise's downtown is a no-skating venue, though the signs are mostly ignored, or the kids just skate down the street.
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