Pick up the pace! Slow walkers four times more likely to die from COVID-19, study finds

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16. Agree!

And it would help if cities put up more cross walks at signaled intersections.

Hubby and I like to do ‘urban crawls” when we visit cities we are not familiar with. We park our car, and walk most places. We have found that some towns and cities don’t like to have cross walks at their intersections.

Makes for very scary walking experiences if traffic is heavy or there are multiple lanes in each direction.

Even though walking has become fairly ubiquitous in some areas, many are not evolved yet. And we could work on more bike paths as well.

Maybe with this new administration, we could have more incentives for cities and towns to make themselves walk/bike friendly.
Locally, there is a bike path on our street. Yet many cyclists still use the road because the bike path has to yield to motorists at each intersection. If you are on the street, then the motorists on the side streets must yield to them. And you can get a better speed on the street because it is straight and flat, while the bike path winds a bit and follows an uneven contour of the road.

Much to do.