Bicycle Urbanism by Design – Next City

https://nextcity.org/features/view/bicycle-urbanism-by-design

The last great obstacle for those wanting to secure streetspace for cars were the angry mothers of America who saw their children killed or maimed by cars in the streets. Enter: the playground. That little zoological garden into which we still place our kids was an invention of the automobile industry as a way to appease mothers and get the little rascals out of the way.

Have they always been displacegrounds??