The majority of folks in the Northwest would love sidewalks and greenways; unfortunately, the City did not take a real read of the community will by doing a poll. It just reacted to a petition by a vocal minority. I understand that the City’s desire to not force anything down people’s throats but they should have also taken into account that originally there was a petition in FAVOR of sidewalks. That’s why Garden/Lamont/Vidal were slated high on the list to get sidewalks that would have benefitted everyone trying to get from the west side of town to downtown and the rest of Decatur without using a car. Polls are so easy to do on-line that we should no longer just react to complaints but measure the true community feeling.

Not sure that there are all that many opportunities around the city to do this kind of connectivity. That map that was link to earlier shows a couple others, but this one would connect three neighborhoods currently no connected at all.