Go to Bedford Street and Hartwell Ave. in Lexington. I take the bus there for dept. meetings every now and then. This is one of the least walkable areas I've been too.
The bus gets ya there, but then drops you off across 4 lanes (plus the routing around the island) of non-stop high speed traffic. No pedestrian lights, no cross walks, and the whole point of that stop is to get you to Hartwell, that you can't get to without playing Frogger.
They finally added a sidewalk on the south side of hartwell too, thankfully. But, it ends before the return bus stop at a telephone pole. This is one of my least favorite examples of sprawl and the nightmare of office parks. It's all about the car. Everyone in the park drives 50 down to the intersection as well and makes two lanes each way despite the lack of markings to allow this.
Lexington Center on the other hand, very nice and walkable.
The funny thing to me though, is how much people who work in these places love it, and the "convenience'. And, us who work in the city are out of our minds. They were literally scared for my safety when I told them I take the bus.
This is something people on this board always try to forget. We are very much outnumbered by those who think the above is the better way. We may rail against it, and think it's our duty to change that perception, but many don't want it changed and will not see our point of view. Who are we to tell them they are wrong? Goose and Gander.
