+1 for that being something needing fixing. :) That might be easy to fix? ;). Unless its actually been banned where you live, nothing to stop people playing in the street (albeit, needs enough practice to be worth listening to). If done to raise money for charity would get a good reception. I wonder actually if shopping malls would allow this to happen more, I mean it makes them look good if someone's doing a charity fundraiser there, or just playing for nothing to entertain people. I think it just takes enough musicians to bother to try to do tis. Maybe people have a mental block on playing in the street cos they think its not the done thing, or "only done by bums" or something.