As I walked back from Uptown along Bowen/Cedar Springs last night, I came to a section near Turtle Creek with no sidewalks on either side of the dark road. The sidewalks just end, forcing pedestrians into brush or onto the street. This seems like such an easy thing to remedy, yet my guess is its been that way for some time. A missing section of vehicular roadway would not be tolerated for a day.
Today a tweet came across my deck regarding preventable pedestrian deaths. Listed were then ten worst places in the U.S. to walk, and coming in at number ten on that list is Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington.
Here's a video I shot trying to walk from the TRE Medical/Market station to Katy Trail.
As the group Transportation for Americans points out, Beyond making new and refurbished roads safer for pedestrians, we need to create complete networks of sidewalks, bicycle paths and trails so that residents can travel safely throughout an area.
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