Blog: Sports Facilities: Keep People Out, or Let Them In?

I was waiting for a traffic light to turn the other day, and realized my car was right next to a high school. Sports facility geek that I am, I started counting the tennis courts (six), the ball fields (two) and staring at the big multisport field that sat in the middle of an all-weather track.

It all looked good until I realized that come September, some coaches were going to be really unhappy. A woman was walking on the running track, and was being tailed by one kid on a tricycle and another on a scooter. Over on one tennis court, a group was playing inline hockey. And just as the light changed and I had to drive on, I realized someone in the field in the center of the track was playing fetch with their dog. On the whole, it's just as well I was in a car and not outside, where I would have stood there staring and practicing some vigorous hand-wringing.

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