November 22, 2009
UTNE READER

Pedestrian Power

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May / June 2004
By Jay Walljasper 
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"Of course," he added as we stepped into the Plaza Hotel to look over the elegant lobby and use the bathroom, "I like Chinatown more. It has all the life of Fifth Avenue but with different accents and price tags. And Mulberry Street in Little Italy -- it's so nice and alive and messy. There is nothing you could do to make that place any more interesting."

A few minutes later, as we headed up Madison Avenue to explore the Upper East Side, I looked over at Kent, his face shining with the excitement of a kid on the first day of summer vacation, and thought of Judge Green back in my hometown. A reserved Midwesterner rather than an ebullient Easterner, Judge Green nonetheless had the same wide, sincere smile as he strolled through the streets of Urbana. Then it dawned on me: The way to get people out of their cars (something I had been wondering about since college) is not to chide them about ruining the environment or shame them about being fat but to show them how much fun, and how much of life itself, they are missing by not walking. And how much more fun we'd all have if we created better places for everyone across America to take a walk.

Jay Walljasper is editor of Utne magazine.

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