Decatur Active Living Board Creates Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Decatur Metro | June 3, 2013Do you walk like you mean it? Do you talk about walking at parties? While trying to speak over your (or other people’s) children at dinner? While walking? Well then Decatur has the Advisory Committee for YOU!
From the city’s Linda Harris….
Decatur has made great strides in creating a walkable community and received the 2011 Silver Level Walk Friendly Community Designation from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center. The Active Living Advisory Board is taking another important step by forming a new Pedestrian Advisory Committee. This new subcommittee of the Active Living Board will focus on pedestrian safety, encourage walking for exercise and transportation, and promote a walk-friendly community for people of all ages and abilities aligning with Decatur’s Strategic and Community Transportation plans. The Pedestrian Advisory Committee will work with Decatur’s bike community along with city engineering and police department staff liaisons to create and achieve its initiatives.
The Pedestrian Advisory Committee will meet on the first Friday of every month from 8 – 9 a.m. and will have an expected workload of about four hours per month including meeting times. If you are interested in joining the committee, please email walking@decaturga.com with a brief statement describing your interest in the Committee’s work. For more information about Walk Friendly Communities visit www.walkfriendly.org.
Pic of Active Living Director Greg White courtesy of the city’s website
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Pedestrian Advisory Group? Hoping they pick “Walk This Way” for a theme song.
I like that Daren!!
Only if they can change it to “Walk the Dinosaur” when heading out of town on the west side toward Fernbank.
Another possible theme song would be “I Walk The Line” as in walking on ( or between) the lines at stop lights instead of crossing the street at any dang place they want.
+1
Just goes to show ANY two people can find something to agree on if the discussion goes on long enough and ranges widely enough.
Or, you could both check out the PEDS site to learn that most of the willy nilly, crossing outside the line that so many people call “jaywalking” is actually legal
No, wait, don’t do that. Mr. B and STG finally agree on something! What the hell is wrong with me trying to intervene?!?
http://peds.org/resources/pedestrian_right_of_way/
Wait, it’s actually legal in some circumstances for an adult to cross the street at a place of his/her own choosing? Those right-wingers inthe GA state house have gone too far. It just totally sucks when people are out on the streets doing any dang thing they want, amirite? It’s much better for citizens to do what they are told.
I guess you haven’t had to slam on your brakes when a moron on a cell phone strolls directly into the street in front of you mid-block. This has happened to me once too often in Decatur.
Or you could do what they do in Carlsbad, CA, and not worry about the lines:
Or “I’m Walkin'” by Fats Domino (very old school).
The group’s slogan could be “I’m Walking Here!” in full Ratso Rizzo voice. I use that line often.
All I know is, with you I’d walk anywhere…
Thanks, guys. Now I have a series of ear worms in quick rotation featuring every song I’ve ever heard about walking…
These boots were made for walking…
Walk like an Egyptian…
I’m walkin’ the floor over you…
A walk on the Wild Side.
That would apply to FM Fats Postal Decatur neighborhood.
When you said goodbye, you said good bye
So walk on by!