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Walkable communities provide for safe, connected pedestrian access to places routinely visited by persons of all ages. Housing, schools, public spaces and commercial uses are frequently mixed so that a portion of routine travel can be comfortably accomplished by walking. Pedestrian medians for crossing wide streets, adequately-timed countdown timers or pedestrian bridges are provided where needed for pedestrian safety.
“A truly walkable community does not force people to drive to where they work.”
(source: www.walkable.org/faqs.html)
“...successful communities are designed around the human foot... Quite simply put: walkable communities work. We know there never has been, nor will there ever be, a more basic and curative prescription for improved health of everything we care about than walking.”
(source: http://www.walklive.org/page_id=28)
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Tags: Sidewalks | Walkability | Walking |
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