In what some see as a baffling move, the Anchorage Parks and Recreation Department is promoting a weekly preschool biking event in Town Square Park, a downtown space long associated with drug use, crime, vagrancy, and public safety concerns.
The “Biker Buddies” program is aimed at children ages 3 to 5, and is being held every Tuesday in July from 10 am to 1 pm. Parks and Rec. officials are urging parents to “bring your 3–5-year-old downtown” to participate in what they describe as a fun and confidence-building experience, complete with strider bikes and free helmets courtesy of the Anchorage Health Department.
But Town Square Park, located at 544 W 5th Ave, is not known for tricycle races or family picnics. It’s known for crime, trash, human waste, and open drug use. Families avoid it, not roll into it with toddlers on training wheels.
Last year, city crews responding to complaints about the park found discarded needles, human waste, and violent confrontations on a near-daily basis. Even during broad daylight, park-goers report witnessing stabbings, drug deals, overdoses, and mentally unstable individuals shouting at passersby.
Despite that, Anchorage Parks and Recreation appears to be trying to rebrand the park’s reputation, using Biker Buddies as the vehicle for change. In promotional materials, the department promises a “SPOKE-tacular time” for kids and emphasizes skill-building in a “fun-filled weekly event.”
But the question remains: Why Town Square?
When someone raised the point on Facebook that there are safer places to take children, Parks and Rec replied: “Hey there, we understand your concerns. One of the reasons we host events like this is because the more positive activity a space gets, the safer it becomes. Luckily, this event includes staff members and an APD presence to help families feel safe while enjoying the park.”
In other words, they’re sending the kids in first to pioneer activity in a place that is so unsafe they have to bring in police.
City officials have not directly addressed the safety concerns, nor whether any enhanced security will be provided during the events. But they have removed a lot of trees from the park, as a way to discourage homesteading vagrants.
Parents who are curious about Biker Buddies — and brave enough to expose their children to Town Square Park — can learn more at: www.muni.org/Departments/parks/Pages/BunkerBiking.aspx.
Leftists will never let reality enter their decision making process. Logic:
1. Town Square Park has the word park in its name.
2. Parks are where children play.
3. Children should play in Town Square Park.
See… perfectly logical.
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Then someone bursts the leftists bubble with reality. They say the ‘park’ has been overrun by drug addicts and vagrants, and it is not safe to encourage children, especially pre-school children who will pick up whatever they see and instantly cram it into their mouths, to play there. The leftist will automatically step you through the above three steps, totally ignoring the reality of the situation.
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But, one thing I am sure of, none of the leftists pushing for this would ever allow their pre-school children to participate.
I don’t see a problem. There is nothing unsafe about crazed drunk women screaming obscenities aloud while everyone just walks by. There is nothing wrong with drugged out shirtless men dancing to their hearts content while another one comes and kicks him in the chest at 3AM on a saturday night. Nothing unsafe about mobs of inebriates passed out on the walking paths with garbage all around them. Its is just normal Democrat city behavior.
The world is a crazy place, may as well expose your kids to it to toughen them up about the real world or else they will identify as a fairy or a cat or something.
The good thing about all this is, more and more parents are going to be involved with their own kids lives so they can protect them from the predators who pose as caregivers and teachers.
The world truly is healing.
La France administration is just prepping the little darlins on what to expect in a liberal utopia…
Rampant drug use, homelessness, public defacation, increased crime, public intoxication…
Nothing to worry about here especially since its being done under the guise of the greater good…
I know I feel better.
You know, I suspect pushing society to collapse is the just what the left wants. Then, they can justify ‘tough measures’ like forcing a communist dictatorship, claiming that ‘democracy hasn’t worked.’
Child abuse!
Mayor dip schlip is pushing parks and recs to do this to show how she has single handedly cleaned up downtown. She is so dumb she believes her own BS. Sad to see this happen but there will be low life’s who will participate because they are brainwashed into believing Mayor Dip Schlip
I am an adult and I would not walk through that park by myself and cannot imagine bringing a toddler down there with all the crazies in the park. What is the point of this? Do they think the crazies are going to move on because some 3 year olds are riding tricycles in the park?
They should use the cop(s) assigned to this duty to kick the street people out of the alcoves and sidewalks downtown. Everyone should go drive around downtown just once at 9 or 10am and look at what our “All American” city has come to and what the tourists have to maneuver around. Absolutely disgusting!
Perverts, commies, and sickos.
The exact same mentality that wants schools to be gun free zones – so spree killers won’t run up against any resistance.
Wonder if they’ll have “Gender Affirming Care” booths, for the children.
This is why Trump was elected three times in a row…
Oh my. Isn’t this a liability waiting to happen.
Is it a teaching moment when little 4 year old Dorothy notices a Native Alaskan inebriate sleeping on the concrete next to a turd that he or one of his compatriots recently excreted? That’s the last place I’d look to take a young impressionable child. This is an amazingly poor plan. Clean the pot before you use it.