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August 04, 2005
Council discover walking but not car-free zones
Edinburgh City Council officials have made the astonishing discovery that (in the words of the BBC) “walking is the most reliable form of transport over short distances and has a positive impact on health.”
Terrific! Now perhaps they could start considering why there are so few car-free zones in the city, and what they might do about it!
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4743151.stm
Posted by Simon Holledge at August 4, 2005 09:49 AM
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Charles Dickens used to habitually take ten and twenty mile hikes just for the crack. Kept him healthy AND he managed to compose Bleak House whilst so doing...
Posted by: Mark Gamon at August 8, 2005 10:53 AM
That's great, I didn't know about Dickens. Maybe he walked up and down Hampstead and Highgate hills? Must have been nice without cars.
Posted by: Simon Holledge at August 8, 2005 01:46 PM
I believe his favourite hikes were in and Rochester, after he moved there. Mind you, he started young. For his first job, aged 11, when the rest of his family was in the Marshalsea Prison, he walked every day from Camden Town to Westminster Stairs and back, to work in the legendary blacking factory.
Can't help feeling we'd have missed an awful lot of literature if there'd been an Underground in those days....
Posted by: Mark Gamon at August 10, 2005 10:31 AM
I have to admit that I have never actually sat down to read a Dickens novel. Where should I start, I wonder?
Posted by: Simon Holledge at August 10, 2005 12:16 PM