Your Neighborhood

What's Your Goal? | Finding The Barriers

New video: Barriers To Walking: What You're Up Against. To view video, click here.

Remember when you walked or bicycled to school? Would you do it now, or let your nine-year-old follow the route you used to take? Today, our dependence on the automobile encourages sprawling developments that place common destinations well beyond comfortable walking and biking distances.

Putting it another way, we're blocked from walking or biking because we don't feel safe doing it. And even if we did, the destinations we want to reach – shopping, schools, parks, work places – are often located too far away.

What we need are neighborhoods and communities where we feel safe during that walk or bike ride. Unfortunately, most of us live in places that weren't designed to make bicycling and walking easy, safe, or convenient.

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Resources

- Building Strong Neighborhoods; A Study Circle Guide for Public Dialogue and Community Problem Solving. From the Study Circles Resource Center, a project of the Topsfield Foundation. | PDF 575KB

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