The Challenge Has Begun!

The Challenge:  To walk all 175 miles of roads in the 10.67 square miles of New Rochelle, New York, the small city where I live.  The map below shows New Rochelle outlined in pink.

And the next map shows the tiny bit of ground we covered on our first afternoon, outlined in green.

It was a slow walk because there was a lot to see and think about even in such a small area.  We started at the Home Depot car park near the corner of Weyman and Main Street.  The intersection here is miserable for pedestrians even on a quiet late Sunday afternoon.  Cars pull up across the pedestrian crossings while waiting to turn and at least one of the crossings appears to only give a cross signal if the button has been pushed. 

Here are a brace of taxis, one driver waving to the other as they wait on the pedestrian crossing for lights to change.  

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