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So, what? How many people were killed/injured? Property damage? If the
answer is "none," then it is none of your damned business!

Well Orville Wright what do you call this?

Chicago Tribune
September 8, 2001
Author: John Chase, Tribune staff reporter.

A single-engine airplane cut electric and telephone wires Friday but
narrowly missed several homes as it skidded into a bank of trees across
the street from a firehouse near Darien.

Exactly.

Our community looked at the statistics and decided that we or our children
could be injured by vehicles. There were a couple of deaths over the 20
years that we have been here, and quite a few close calls. And every day
there is a kid being hit somewhere in the city.

So we are closing all the roads and banning cars from our subdivision. (And
there were a *lot* of them in our area... way more than the number of
airplanes at Meigs or even any of those other places).

Most of us are old and retired, so we don't have anywhere to go much anyway.
For those that do, they can walk across the park and catch a bus on the
other side.

A couple of guys owned really nice cars and were quite P.O.'ed about it, but
eventually they just had to leave them somewhere on the other side of the
park and walk like the rest of us.

A few people couldn't take the inconvenience and moved out, but good
riddance to them. They were quite well to do, too, and some said that their
leaving had an "economic impact", whatever that means. And their houses
took a long time to sell... One is still empty... getting kind of
dillapidated, too. We'll probably just tear it down and plant grass on the
lot.

We have a modern big-city hospital in our area, but the ambulances can't get
there directly from the suburbs anymore. When they do, they have to drop
the patients off on the outide of our subdivision, and wheel them into the
hospital on guerneys. It may take a little longer, but really, how many
emergency patients can you possibly get each day. But our children don't
have to worry about the traffic.

And it is really *beautiful* here now. We ripped up the pavement and put it
flower gardens and pools, planted extra tees. And set up some bleachers on
the larger boulevards for concerts and the like. Really pretty.

Strangely, though, I notice that some of our friends and family don't visit
much anymore. And the local businesses don't seem to be doing quite as well
as they once did. The one gas station closed, and the manager has been
having a problem finding another job... I think he's on welfare now.... But
it really only affected maybe 20 or 30 people, this drop in
business...doesn't really affect the community as a whole.

Our latest beef is that we know part of our taxes go toward the upkeep of
roads in other parts of town, but we are going to start working on getting
that corrected, right away.

Cheers. More people should buy homes here. You'll be amazed how safe it is
here now once the cars are gone.