Queen's Landing

Power to the foot people!

car-free Sundays

Car-free Sundays are happening here soon. Portland tried it, and it was a great success. They've done it in NYC and Cleveland. Seattle is trying it today. And here's a another video from the NYC version.

Soon it will be our turn. Read about it here and try it in October.

safer pedestrians?

Will this effort to raise driver awareness keep pedestrians safer? What's your $0.02 on this? Please leave comments.

safe routes to school and the Illinois legislature

The Safe Routes to School program faces a ridiculous hurdle in our state. We have the federal money available and allocated to add sidewalks, crosswalks and other improvements, but it's being held up at the state level, which could result in many projects not being completed before the start of the next school year.

In their current state, too many areas are not safe for children to walk to school, so many are bused or driven for short distances that they could otherwise, giving them more exercise. It's bad enough when clueless people destroy existing sidewalks for selfish reasons. (Click here for earlier story and here for photo.) If you're interested in a healthy streets initiative, click here for more info.

The icing on the cake is the Illinois legislators' proposal to vote themselves a pay raise while we're facing a significant budget deficit and they failed us so miserably on budget negotiations last year. Sheesh! Ya gotta earn it, folks!

sidewalk

Some geniuses in Lake Forest decided to remove the public sidewalk in front of their house, because they didn't want people walking there. Huh? Haven't these idiots ever heard of curtains?



They definitely don't get the concept of healthy streets, do they? If they didn't want to be next to a sidewalk, which kids need to safely walk to the school next door, why did they buy the house?

Here's an update. I hope that these fools lose their lawsuit and have to fork over $$$ to rebuild the sidewalk and pay fines on top of it. We don't want to see this kind of thing setting a precedent for people getting away with this kind of selfish stupidity.