Vermont is tolerant of all sorts of things — pot, late-term abortion, and even guns are all legal. But officials in Burlington won’t stand for citizens acting as a community to protect kids from getting run over.

Five Sisters is the name of a neighborhood on the south end of Burlington, just above Callahan Park, a tree-lined oasis filled with ballfields and playgrounds. Getting to the park involves crossing Locust Street. While a few crosswalks are feeding into the north side of the park, the folks coming down Locust Terrace or Hayward Street didn’t have a crossing.