A pedestrian perspective.
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THE WELSH ‘ACTIVE TRAVEL’ ACT
They’ve passed this:
An Act of the National Assembly for Wales
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to make provision for the mapping of active travel routes and related facilities and for and in connection with integrated network maps;
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for securing that there are new and improved active travel routes and related facilities;
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for requiring the Welsh Ministers and local authorities to take reasonable steps to enhance the provision made for,
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and to have regard to the needs of, walkers and cyclists; for requiring functions under the Act to be exercised so as to promote active travel journeys and secure
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MOST WALKABLE (American) CITIES LIST
Here’s HuffPost’s Most Walkable Cities list, based on the number of commuters who walk to work. Between the first, Cambridge, and the third, Berkeley, can you guess the second?
It’s this:
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No help? The answer is here.
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TEN THOUSAND STEPS
How one number became sacred in fitness circles.
Why 10,000 steps? Was it the result of multi-year fitness studies involving warehouses filled with treadmills? Not precisely. It was actually concocted as part of a marketing slogan in Japan. A watchmaker named Yamasa Tokei originally trotted out the 10,000 steps thing in 1965. He made and sold a pedometer he called Manpo-Kei, which when repeated out loud mimics the rhythm of a walk. In Japanese this translates into “10,000 step meter.” Ads for Tokei’s device said, “Let’s walk 10,000 steps a day!”
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