The Best Walking Cities for 2007 have been released. Charlottesville is not in the Top 100. Those fabulous walking cities such as Stockton, CA and Newark, NJ rank above us.
What can the village elders do about this? Perhaps spending $20,000 to come up with a new city song about walking. “Walk this way…schoolgirl sweetie with a class kinda sassy…little skirt’s climbin’ way up the knee…there was three young ladies in the school gym locker…” Do I now get $20,000?
Since C-Ville likes to think it is as good as Austin (actually the village seem to think it is better than Austin) they will have to do a lot to climb from the scrap heap to #2 on the list. Can it be done? Maybe they should first work on beating the three other cities in Virginia: Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, and Norfolk (is that where big boats and planes sit?).
Now, start expanding 29 and put in some crosswalks.
The first goal of Charlottesville walkability is shown above (#100 on the list).
