tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129037502516609710.post6708612175187954790..comments2024-03-28T11:13:48.581+00:00Comments on i b i k e l o n d o n: Friday TED Talk: Jeff Speck's Walkable Cityibikelondonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06978714126105951294noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129037502516609710.post-42534302630005356322024-01-27T09:14:23.784+00:002024-01-27T09:14:23.784+00:00Appreciate you bloggingg thisAppreciate you bloggingg thisBlogbikesallonehttps://blog-bikesallone.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129037502516609710.post-58284209591628762432014-01-03T11:34:28.909+00:002014-01-03T11:34:28.909+00:00I once had a client whose US HQ was in Houston, Te...I once had a client whose US HQ was in Houston, Texas - in an office complex above the Westin Galleria, an up-market shopping mall just outside the West Loop freeway, five miles from the city centre.<br /><br />You could see the city centre in the distance, a bit like looking at Canary Wharf from Primrose Hill, but there is no way that you could have walked there. For starters, there were no sidewalks. Clearly nothing was provided for pedestrians and no-one walked anywhere. No-one cycled either for that matter. I went out for a walk one morning, but the only reason that was safe to do was because it was 5am - to my body clock that was 11am because for short trips to the USA I try to stay on UK time.<br /><br />In fact some of the neighbourhoods I walked through, had they had sidewalks, would have been pleasant to walk through, as long as you like a good, long, walk!<br /><br />Houston is a sprawly city - its outer beltway is longer than the M25 and yet the population it encircles is less than a fifth of the equivalent area of Greater London. It is full of humungous SUVs, driven by equally humungous people. When you see this, it is easy to imagine that the human race might be extinct before the end of this century.Paul Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929808238663838155noreply@blogger.com