Urban Walkability Gains a Foothold in the U.S.

[marble falls]

1. Walkability in Marble Falls means you can drive to the walking paths in Johnson Park. I live ...

only several dangerous blocks from there. Walkability should mean I can walk to businesses and work, too. I did walk to work. But it really took a lot of paying attention. Drivers DO NOT slow down for crossers. With few sidewalks and some of the little there are, being close enough to the roads that getting clocked by a truck's passenger side view mirror is a distinct possibility. Forget bicycling except for pleasure rides on residential streets, where there are no sidewalks at all.

I'd love to walk to HEB, I can see it from my house, but it requires me to either cross the creek using rocks to step, or to use the fairly new bridge on 1431 which has no side walk on one side, and some of the little side walk in town on the north side that narrows to about 30" wide across the bridge. We tried it one morning about 10 or 12 years ago, and it was not a safe feeling doing it.