One thing on my mind recently is how to improve the connectivity in my community for both pedestrians and cyclists. In order to get across town on your feet or your bike, you have to spend time on a major roadway. This is a highly unpleasant experience, and a real deterrent to human powered transportation.
I was also thinking about the nature of footpaths in some areas of Europe. There are paths that go up mountains, etc., just like in the US. In addition, they have footpaths that actually lead someplace. So there are footpaths from village to village.
The third piece is reviewing the places I have lived where people walked or rode their bikes as transportation. Yes there are regional cultural differences, but one key part of this is that in the areas where these are legitimate forms of transport, the paths lead to somewhere.
So that is what we need - paths to somewhere...
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