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nxylas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-13-08 07:40 PM
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Towards Walkability - and Happiness
Via Common Dreams:
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_9868265?nclick_check=1&forced=true
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-08 09:54 AM
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1. Good piece.....I'm definitely less happy when I'm in my car.
Edited on Mon Jul-14-08 09:55 AM by marmar
But I had the day off last Thursday, and took the SMART (the suburban Detroit transit system) bus into the city for a Tigers game. I listened to music on my iPod, read a magazine and arrived completely unstressed. Then I walked around downtown, taking in the RiverWalk and stopping in Greektown for dinner. Total bliss.
I'm really beginning to hate the suburban sprawl that I live in, where even crossing the perpetually-packed road to get to a store is like that old video game "Frogger."
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nxylas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-08 01:21 PM
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2. Sounds like where I live
I do miss the walkability of my hometown (Bristol, England) sometimes. Like most European cities, 99% of the roads (other than motorways, equivalent to interstates here) have sidewalks and probably 90% of those have them on both sides of the road.
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