The Bus

Lately I’ve been walking and riding the bus a lot. I always enjoy talking to the people I meet on the bus. In the last couple of weeks two of my favorite acquaintances have been; a fellow surfer, who grew up surfing on Lake Michigan (I’ve read about surfing on Lake Michigan, but never met anyone who’d done it before). The second was a young lady from Russia who was surprised by how limited our mass transit was.

I had, what I felt to be genuine and interesting conversations with both of these folks……. Sometimes I don’t think we realize how much has been lost. Meetings and conversations like this don’t happen when we’re driving in our cars.

It all happened on a short 6 mile commute to Lomita. The cost was a dollar. (round trip!)

Let the kids walk to school

Where did “being a kid” and being “free to explore the world” go?

If kids get in the car every morning to go to school, how much harder is it going to be to break future generations of the auto habit?

read more here

and here…

SafeRoutesToSchool.org

Walk

“Walking is convenient, it needs no special equipment, is self-regulating and inherently safe. Walking is as natural as breathing”.
John Butcher, Founder Walk21, 1999

Find out more about making your community more walkable and download the International Charter for Walking here.