Unfortunately it is not many people who feel this way. People love their big cars here and they simply do not walk. We have one of the greatest overweight populations in the country in some of our KY cities.

Our city officials are not very interested in this issue. I hope to soon become a city official in my home town so this is one of the changes I would hope to be able to implement.

I very much see that before me. And given my experiences, I know what it feels like. I reckon the Dunkin Donuts folks would have much interest in getting that situation taken care of.

I wonder if more people feel like you, wouldn’t it work to get together and get the city officials to do something about it?

1- Next door to where I live there is a giant office park all owned by one big telecommunications company. I’m in a small town, and when the company moved here years ago the town managed to negotiate that while putting up these office buildings they would also make walking paths, etc.. The result is a very pleasant area with easily a few miles worth of sidewalk going around well land scaped buildings and a couple small ponds. Great idea, and every time we go for a walk I see at least a half dozen other people doing the same. Build it and they will come.

2- I live in New England, so Dunkin Donuts Coffee is basically a requirement. There is a Dunkin less than a mile from my house, in the opposite direction from the office park. There are sidewalks most of the way, till the end of my street. At that point between me and the Dunkin is a short bridge over a highway, and 2 traffic lights (with no crosswalk) on a 2 lane road. No sidewalk for the only part there’s a real need for one. Consequently, though we get ice coffees pretty often througout the summer, I have not once walked to the Dunkin. Walking in the street through that overpass feels a little suicidal (especially with the way we drive).

Or it’s the city’s new natural steeplechase course! 😉

Hahaha, me too. I did a search for Frogger, just so that people who hadn’t heard of it understood what I meant, found that site and ended up trying to get the frog across myself.

Was it always this hard? 😀

P.S.: Damned you, Evil, I just spent 1 hour of my life reviving the old ZX Spectrum times…

Just to make sure: I don’t mean this as criticism of the US. I just note differences. Jupiter knows there is enough about Germany that is less than stellar.

The Nazi regime btw spent a lot of money on expanding the German autobahn system while remilitarizing our nation. The purpose of the first probably was to aid the latter.