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that's smart. a mr. miyagi wax on / wax off approach. can you think of any co's that do this well? here's a fun walking app btw (https://jaywalk.me/ https://j

• DoreenMichele 9y ago
  No, I can't. I have spent quite a lot of years trying to figure out how to do a pedestrian-themed blog. I finally have one that I think might "have legs." ;) It has two whole posts. I have probably gone through 10 or 12 different blog names, most of which never got any content whatsoever. I think trying to promote pedestrianism in the US is quite challenging. I have lived without a car for like a decade or so. The most common assumption people make is that I am clearly just pathetically poor. This happens to be true right now, but I also am a committed environmentalist type. My college major was in environmental studies. I gave up my car when I still had a corporate job. Only one person who ever gave me a ride home from the corporate job ever asked me why I gave up the car. Everyone else just made polite noises about what a trooper I was for dutifully walking to work in spite of the pathetic state of my obviously poverty stricken life. In the US, no car = pathetic poor person. So trying to sell people on the idea of choosing to go carless is a really tough thing. Thus, I would just start with trying to get them to drive less and maybe go from a two-car family to a one-car family. That's a much easier starting point. There was an website I saw the other day on HN: Transforming How We Collect and Visualize Information about Urban Accessibility (projectsidewalk.io) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790713 I liked that.