Despite our New Rochelle undertaking being dwarfed by this long ago walk I am still pleased we have stuck with our own Walk Your Community Challenge. We have seen a lot and learned a lot about where we live and even in a small city it is fascinating to see the differences between neighborhoods and the ways public space is used. More on this later.
I've been feeling pretty pleased that our challenge of walking all the streets of New Rochelle is now entering the mop up phase of small pockets to finish with the bulk of streets completed, and then I saw this from Shorpy. Walking Coast to Coast 'for his health'. How would that be now? Plenty of bridges and highways pedestrians are banned from that could make it something of an obstacle course.
Despite our New Rochelle undertaking being dwarfed by this long ago walk I am still pleased we have stuck with our own Walk Your Community Challenge. We have seen a lot and learned a lot about where we live and even in a small city it is fascinating to see the differences between neighborhoods and the ways public space is used. More on this later.
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Author: Nina ArronI am an enthusiastic pedestrian, urban planner, and project manager currently living in New Rochelle, New York. I am grateful to be living in a walkable city with affordable easily accessible public transport (both trains and buses). My appreciation became even greater after spending three years back in New Zealand where it was much harder to fit daily walking into my life in what is considered one of the great natural, green environments in the world. Archives
February 2019
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