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Lawrence, Kansas Takes Top Walkability Honors

Posted by: Mike Lydon
Thanks to: Sandy Sorlien
19 March 2008 - 11:00am

Lawrence, Kansas has been named the most walkable city in Kansas, and the 38th most walkable destination in America. However, city officials are not resting on their laurels.

"It was a free and furry Tuesday morning adventure for 2-year-old Eoghan Greenwell who was walking along Massachusetts Street with his mother.

A fellow walker with a tiny, kid-friendly dog stopped to give the excited toddler a chance to pet its snout.

'Oh, so soft,' Eoghan’s mother, Alix Stephan, said as she petted the dog and the young boy bear hugged her leg.

Certainly not a life-changing event, but still a welcome diversion that wouldn’t have been possible had Stephan and her son not been out for a stroll.

'Something like that would never happen in a car,' Stephan said. 'That’s what I really love about walking. In some strange sort of way it does little things to bring a community together.'"

Full Story: City named top walkable destination
Source: Lawrence Journal-World & News, March 19, 2008
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And many of us – the majority, in fact – find ourselves living in a drive-only landscape, where we must burn gas even to reach a transit stop, if one exists.
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