[Winona Online Democracy]
Dwayne & Denine Voegeli said, in part: "The first story is called, "Healthy
By Design" and it talks about what makes Vancouver such a great city to live
in."
Something is just broken in our social paradigm. The peoples penchant for
driving everywhere is part of it. If more people would just leave their cars
at home, bicycle, walk or bus to work it would make a difference. Less use
of cars would bolster the public transportation (bus) effort and make it
better. Heck, we might even become more healthy!
Points: I once lived in very hilly region of the country that had more snow,
sometimes worse winters than Winona the school bus policy used a three-mile
limit. You lived 3 miles or closer and you walked. It didn't hurt any of us
children one bit. Let's start there and perhaps we will have a generation
with more healthy expectations. Another - in some highly civilized and
successful cities it is virtually illegal to have an automobile in the city;
they use bicycles, young and old alike. Large avenues are opened to one-way
traffic into the city in the morning and then reversed for traffic out of
the city in the afternoon. Almost nobody locks their bikes, either. It's
unnecessary.
Exceptions were made for the infirm who usually use the properly outfitted
bus.
Gasoline was $4.0 a gallon there - forty years ago!
We have bicycle lanes. It's a good start. And, in my experience, we have
amazingly courteous, bicycle and pedestrian-conscious automobile drivers.
That's a surprising and wonderful thing. (Or maybe my experience with
drivers is an outlier - a sixty-year old man on a bicycle. I don't know.)
Put your children on their bicycles. Show them by example by doing it
yourself first.
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