Walking and Jugging only, Please

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At Santa Monica, California, the place known for its beautiful beach and sun-drenched residential areas, joggers and walkers might not be able to do stretching, situps, push-ups, and a lof more, on traffic median anymore. According to the news, Where the Traffic Median Is a No-Pilates Zone, from New York Times.

The target is increasingly loud, littering and generally intrusive groups of exercisers who gather from dawn until dusk along the Fourth Street median. The ocean view, the air and for some the architectural spectacle have transformed the area into a huge outdoor gym rimmed by multimillion-dollar homes."

Yes, it's not because of danger, but because of the increasingly annoying loud, mess, and use of commercialization. Everything is just not quite a big deal if all of them take place modestly. And yes, traffic median is a public space, so everybody is inherently entitiled some right of using it. However, rights is usually followed by obligations. With the prequisite that nobody will be annoyed, rousted out of bed, or even hurt, the right of using the public space might be more legitimately allowable.

On the other hand, with all the obligation those exercisers fulfill, the residents might also want to appreciate exercisers' contribution to making the neighborhood more vivid and energetic, indrectly sending a message to car drivers passing by that this is just a very livable place with all the good-looking people working out around, and favorably booming the price of house.