Best of Bike Delaware 2013: How children lost the right to roam in four generations

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Best of Bike Delaware 2013: How children lost the right to roam in four generations

December 26, 2013 Most Popular 1

2013 Look Back: This post was originally published on December 13, 2012.  It was the 6th most viewed Bike Delaware post of 2013.

 

By DAVID DERBYSHIRE
15 June 2007
Daily Mail

When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere.

It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his favourite fishing haunt without adult supervision.

Fast forward to 2007 and Mr Thomas’s eight-year-old great-grandson Edward enjoys none of that freedom.

He is driven the few minutes to school, is taken by car to a safe place to ride his bike and can roam no more than 300 yards from home.

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