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"Monterey is talking about taking down the fencing around the train at Dennis the Menace Park but still won't let children play on the structure.Children use to be able to walk right up to the\u00A0locomotive\u00A0that has been sitting on the site since 1956 and play on the train.\"It was something that was greatly beloved by children. It\u00A0was not,\u00A0unfortunately,\u00A0built as playground equipment, and safety standards have really changed over the years,\" said Kim Bui-Burton with Monterey's Parks and Recreation Department.In 2013,\u00A0the city decided\u00A0the locomotive was unsafe\u00A0and a fence\u00A0was needed around it, an action not everyone\u00A0favored.Now,\u00A0as part of the city's new Parks and Recreation Master Plan,\u00A0Monterey is looking at making changes yet again.A study conducted at the park suggests the city take down the fence, build a play area around the train, and also build barriers to prevent children from playing on the train itself.\"I think it would be great to have it be more of an interactive piece here at the park,\" said park-goer\u00A0Amanda Henline.Henline takes her two boys to Dennis the Menace Park all the time and she said they always want to get closer to the train.\"Definitely love the train they want to get closer to it, see what it is all about, look at the wheels, and the gears and everything,\" she said.Bui-Burton said the new play area could include interactive structures like a train\u00A0whistle\u00A0or an engineer station, where children can pretend to drive a train. She said the idea has been presented at community workshops on the new master plan to mixed reviews.\"I would say half the people were excited and thought this was a really great way of looking at it, and half the people still wished that they could have the old train back to play on,\" Bui-Burton said.Discussing the study and proposed plans is on the agenda for Thursday night's Parks and Recreation Commission meeting, but no real movement is expected until April."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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