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The Challenge Has Begun!

8/6/2013

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

    I 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.  

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