Where did the Sidewalks Go?

24/7 Pace of Life Bad for the Soul?

During the 60s and 70s developers quit putting in sidewalks. I ask, "what happen to the Sidewalks?" I grew up in a neighborhood with sidewalks, but its very common now to not have sidewalks at all. Today, developers are trying to recover them, but we went through a whole phase when we didn't have sidewalks. What does that say, what does that speak too, why??

What is a sidewalk?

A Sidewalk is shared space.

A Sidewalk is something that connects us.

A Sidewalk is something that makes us neighbors.

Sidewalks are for WALKING, very little of that is being done. If your on a sidewalk it means your outside. All of these things have begun to fade away in our modern culture. The absence of sidewalks screams of INDIVIDUAL, ISOLATION, and INACTIVITY; all which are bad. We don't want to be connected, we don't want to have neighbors, we don't want to share, it speaks of our impatience.

Come on be honest who walks anymore, we want to get there at 70mph. We can't walk, who walks.