It is not crowded with other vehicles but instead with young people from adolescent age to young adults roaming up and down the streets.

Why are they there?
Lynda Thigpen lives in the area and said, “My granddaughter, she’ll sit here sometimes and say ‘It’s so boring.’ There’s nothing for them to do.”
“The kids want to go somewhere and do something, get on the computer or do some kind of activity to keep their minds occupied,” Thigpen said.
Jimmy Standfield lives in the area and said this has been going on for years. He would like to see more activities to keep the area’s children occupied like a playground, park, a tutoring program or computer-education program.
Standfield said, “Some of us, we’re so tied up with ourselves we don’t hear what our children are saying. We see our children walking up and down the street and say ‘Well, they’re out of the house.’ But they’re just in front of someone else’s house.”
Ward Four City Councilman George Carmichael said the city has been setting aside money for an outdoor area for children and families but the ward has no space right now.
Carmichael suggested, “For people looking for things to do, we’re encouraging people to go to the Ellis Center. The city has spent thousands to renovate the building. It has basketball, boxing, swimming and other programs.”
The lack of space puts a pinch on any big events people want to have in Ward Four.
“Those are the only picnic benches available in this area,” Rosa McGee said while pointing across the street to Nora Davis Elementary School, “and that’s on school property. That’s the only picnic area in this area and it’s off limits.”
McGee said she would like the area to have a place where families can spend more time with each other and have receptions and social events and reunions.
Many of the children do not have any way to travel more than a few blocks after they get home from school, so they cannot use facilities a few miles away such as one of the city’s parks.
Jason Hicks, 17, would like to see some community-wide events similar to the Laurel Police Department’s Night Out Against Crime to occur more often and be brought to Ward Four.
“It makes me wonder,” Hicks said. “I would want my child to have something around here, something to do.”

(source: leadercall.com