Playground Equipment Wood
Why aren’t modern playgrounds built in the shade?
My four-year-old loves to go to the playground. But it’s summer, and I’ve discovered that most playgrounds have no shade whatsoever. Here we are in a beautiful park with huge, beautiful shade trees all around us–and, in a flat treeless area out of range of any shade whatsoever, sits some plastic and metal playground equipment on a bed of wood chips.
Not even the parent benches have shade most of the time. They’re hard metal, uncomfortable, and blazing hot after ten o’clock in the morning.
I know there must be a good reason for this… probably some silly liability issue. But I can’t imagine what it would be. How would it increase the park’s liability to build the playground in range of the shade trees? Any ideas?
Money.
It’s cheaper and faster to clear out the trees and pull in the playground equipment.
My dad has been in the construction business for 45 years. I asked him once about residential subdivisions being totally cleared of any tree before construction begins, why couldn’t they leave some big old trees and build around them? I understand not leaving all, but some.
He said it was much more time (on the clock) for the designers/architects/engineers to come up with a safe and aesthetically pleasing plan and time consuming for the crew to put together something that had be built around an existing structure.
Our town has some great playgrounds with canopies on them, and on that recycled rubber flooring that’s got a “spring” to it.
**rally your fellow parents to city hall and get one of these built!!
shade- http://www.shadesystemsinc.com/gallery.htm
floor- http://www.floorscore.com/playground/
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