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There have been so many benefits of Street Play for the kids.
街头游戏给孩子们带来了很多好处。
Parents really like the fact that the kids are getting fresh air instead of sitting staring at a computer screen, even if they’re not doing anything particularly energetic.
家长们很喜欢孩子们可以呼吸新鲜空气，而不是坐在家里盯着电脑屏幕，即使他们没有做任何特别有活力的事情。
And of course it’s great that kids can play with their friends outside without being supervised by their parents- but for me the biggest advantage is that kids develop confidence in themselves to be outside without their parents.
当然，孩子们可以在没有父母监督的情况下和朋友们在户外玩耍很好--但对我来说，最大的好处是孩子们在没有父母陪伴的情况下在户外培养了信心。
The other really fantastic thing is that children get to know the adults in the street – it’s like having a big extended family.
另一件非常棒的事情是，孩子们在街上认识了成年人，这就像有了一个大家庭。
It certainly does have a lot of benefits.
这当然有很多好处。
I want to move on now and ask you about a related project in King Street.
我现在想继续问你关于国王街的一个相关项目。
Right. Well, this was an experiment I was involved in where local residents decided to try and reduce the traffic along King Street, which is the busiest main road in our area, by persuading people not to use their cars for one day.
没错。这是我参与的一个实验，当地居民决定尝试通过说服人们一天不开汽车来减少国王街的交通流量，国王街是我们地区最繁忙的主干道。
We thought about making people pay more for parking-but we decided that would be really unpopular-so instead we just stopped people from parking on King Street but left the other car parks open.
我们想过让人们为停车支付更高的费用，但我们认为这真的不受欢迎，所以我们只是阻止人们在国王街停车，但他们可以在其他停车场停车。
It was surprising how much of a difference all this made.
令人惊讶的是，这一切带来了如此大的变化。
As we’d predicted, air quality was significantly better but what I hadn’t expected was how much quieter it would be – even with the buses still running.
正如我们预测的那样，空气质量明显好了很多，但我没有想到的是，即使公交车还在运行，这里仍然安静了很多。
Of course everyone said they felt safer but we were actually amazed that sales in the shops went up considerably that day – we thought there’d be fewer people out shopping-not more.
当然，每个人都说他们感觉更安全了，但我们实际上很惊讶的是，那天商店的销售额大幅上升，我们之前以为外出购物的人会更少，而不是更多。
That’s really interesting so the fact that...
这真的很有趣，所以事实上……
