These Shoes Were Made For Walking?
Summer is the time to get out and walk around Edmonton. Sure, we should get exercise in the winter too but, come on, it’s freakin’ freezing.
I’m all about the random walk. The kind where you end up seeing stuff you didn’t know was down the street, or in a nearby park, or in Edmonton at all. But I can enjoy a walk with purpose, or destination, as much as the next walker.
Have you checked out the Walkable Edmonton maps? They’re handy little maps that show you what to watch for, and check out, in a number of neighborhoods. Put together with neighborhoods groups and organization, they give you a good idea of where to go and what to look at.
There are a dozen maps, covering ground in more than 40 neighborhoods.
Speaking of walking…I’m not sure if I’m walking way more than shoes are made for, buying crappy shoes, or have weird feet that simply destroy shoes in a short period of time, but I find I’ve got to buy new shoes every year or two.
Am I doing something wrong? Am I a walking machine? Do I just need to buy more expensive shoes that can hold up to feet that don’t just sit on gas pedals and couches?
What are the best spots in Edmonton to get high-quality shoes that are going to stand up to me walking through all of those maps?
The fix is in
I took the stairs down because I didn't think it would ever be fixed. What a nice way to start the week!
Another one bites the dust.
That is, another broken item is fixed.
And we will, of course, pretend we had something to do with it.
Yes, after five months (5 of them!) the escalator on the east side of the University LRT station is open again. Man, those frozen pipes must have just obliterated things.
There’s some absolutely, delicious, coincidental timing to this one. I was at a media mixer Friday night and was chatting with a pair of gents from City of Edmonton communications about, among other things, this LRT escalator.
Bam! Monday morning everything is fixed.
Also funny, our table was musing about the fact this could have all been part of secret plans of Active Edmonton and Walkable Edmonton to force people to take the stairs. Those sly so-and-sos and their love of “walking” and “being active.” Give me the moving stairs!
But…it all gets me thinking. Maybe we do like being the ones loudly complaining about broken stuff. Maybe we should follow the lead of those smarter than us and do this kind of thing on a more regular basis.
Of course, it would have to be something that’s been broken for a long time, or that’s been reported and not fixed.
And what are the chances that would continue to happen?
Let us know if this is an idea you’re into.
