Jim Bacon has a great article about suburban sidewalk development. If he didn’t write about it, I was gonna write about it. The sheer stupidity of suburban planning boggles the mind.
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Jim Bacon has a great article about suburban sidewalk development. If he didn’t write about it, I was gonna write about it. The sheer stupidity of suburban planning boggles the mind.
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Lame suburban development is one of my pet peeves. From the age of 10, I grew up in a car-centric suburb. We were the only people who walked anywhere–sometimes on the shoulder of busy roads because there was no sidewalk at all. As soon as I could, I fled to an apartment in the city, where it was so nice to have shops, restaurants and a library I could walk to without people staring at the weirdo who wasn’t in a car.
I used to walk from UVa to PVCC several times a week, and it was an interesting experience. The pedestrian accomodations ranged from wonderful to abhorrent in different parts of the city. Ironically, I found the short stretch of interstate before PVCC to be the least harrowing part of my journey.