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I use to play roller hockey on the street. Thanks to Wayne's World we would always yell "car" when a car was coming and "game on" when the street was clear.

We weren't allowed to play in the street when I was a kid. We were on a corner lot so we could ride our bikes on one street, but the other street was too busy.

Yup!

We live in a housing plan & kids play in the street here, too. Our neighbors play hockey and set up nets and everything! It doesn't bother me.. Though I can see the danger!

Parents are always sitting outside and keeping an eye on the kids, whereas when I was younger we weren't quite as supervised!

I lived on a dirt road. We had a good amount of property and no close neighbors so I didn't play in the road very much.

@Honeybee: we also had a corner lot with one busy street, but we definitely played in the middle of the non- busy one or in the walnut orchards across the street.

We were told to come home when the street lights came on. We were definitely free range kids! What boggles my mind most is that our parents let us ride our bikes a couple of miles to "Mr. Paul's" convenience store on roads that had a 45/ hr speed limit and no sidewalk to get candy. I started doing that when I was 8. I can't imagine doing that with my LOs.

We played in our driveway a lot, not so much in the streets. Our driveway is pretty large (think large circle drive) so it wasn't an issue.

Yep! Here, it is a little too busy for the local kids to play on the street. they mostly play on the sidewalks, though

Yes, all the time! We also would shout "CAR!!" and everyone would run to either side of the street. Now it bothers me when children are in the street! But I live in a much busier neighborhood than I did as a kid. Across the street from my house is a cul-de-sac and the kids will play there, but not on my street.

All the time! But we lived on a dead-end dirt road and there were only like 3 houses after ours!