statler
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econ_tim said:no need to get high-minded.
Don't listen to him ablarc! :!:
Some us like your high falutin' fancy-smancy book-learnin' writtins'.
Keep it up.
econ_tim said:no need to get high-minded.
Nothing high-minded, just telling it like it lives.econ_tim said:ablarc, no need to get high-minded.
It's a reductio ad absurdum. Those are always inherently silly. By definition, absurd.i am just trying to get you to clarify your definition of walkability. and using mount everest as an example is silly.
It's always too early. It might be too early to say if George W. Bush's Iraq policy will be a success. Let's wait till he wins before we speculate.it is too early to tell whether kendall square will evolve into one of your urban utopias.
No, I don't; you must have misread what I said, or I put it unclearly.also you now seem to agree with me that kendall square and lechmere are walkable.
It's certainly more walkable than anything in Charlotte.Ron Newman said:I'd call Cambridge Street walkable all the way from Lechmere to Harvard.
ablarc said:It's certainly more walkable than anything in Charlotte.
Well, it is, but I didn't want to offend Ron.atlrvr said:Are you kidding me? Tryon St. between 3rd and 4th is WAY more walkable than Cambridge St.
ablarc said:No, I don't; you must have misread what I said, or I put it unclearly.also you now seem to agree with me that kendall square and lechmere are walkable.
A walkable place is one that?s not a hardship to walk.
econ_tim said:since i don't find walking around main street and cambridge a hardship than i was classifying these areas as walkable. maybe moving sidewalks would help?
statler said:I don't think he meant a lot of physical exertion so much as a more mental drudgery.
Yeah, it must be obvious that though on Saturdays Newbury's irregular sidewalks are too narrow and force you to duck around google-eyed tourists, it's still more walkable than Kendall Square at its best-engineered finest.statler said:I don't think he meant a lot of physical exertion so much as a more mental drudgery.
Sounds like where I live. My neighbors tell me how walkable it is, to which I respond like the sphinx.econ_tim said:I'm originally from a small town in Tennessee. There was a Wal-Mart less than half a mile from my house that I could not safely walk to. There were no sidewalks leading there, plus I would have to cross a 6 lane highway with no crosswalks and walk through several acres of parking lots. That is what I think of as an unwalkable community.
I guess we just have different standards.