#1 Walking Assessment
Home to Fred Meyer (20 minutes by walk)
- Elementary school
- Lincoln city park
- Christian Center
- Food market
- Night food
- DAIRY Queen
- Dutch bros
- Some Restaurants
- KFC
- Spa
- Pizza store
- Fred Meyer
The place that I’m living is on the inside middle between to main stress. There have 3 schools and 2 church, also 2 city park around my area. I always walk to the bus stop for school. While I was, they’re not much dead end road. Most of them are connect it and get through easily. They are more like a footpath. In my area, there some Interesting phenomenon. Since I said, my house is locating in the middle of two main stress. The one that needs to walk 20 minutes is looking much different than the other one. The other one is closer to my house, and it has more fast food and I consider as a low-income area.
The connectivity of my living area is little up of average. Because most of the road are blocks and large intersection. It just needs to walk more to find a store for food. If I looking for a convenience store, there have one is 5 minutes walk from my house. But, if I want to go to the supermarket, then it will be 20 minutes walk from my house. Most of the time, we will drive to there or drive more further to another store. So, for who is low-income people is will need to take the bus. It needs to walk 10 minutes from the house and take 5 minutes bus to get weekly food. It will get more complex to the supermarket. So, the linkage of my living area is 65% out of 100.
If we talking about the land-use patterns, I think there have some job opportunity, but not for long-term and salary is not high. For any food store, it has walked more than 15 minutes. But we do have a green area. We have 2 city park because there has some school. I think is good for children and elder people to get a little walk. But for safety is little unsafety. The main causing is the park because I found out there have a lot of homeless will stay there for the night. Special the path quality, they all are a footpath and it is a little narrow for more than two people. Some of the houses, they even have fencing at the front yard. When I try to walk by it, it won’t fit for two people. Some of them, even have plant something in their front yard and not settle well, it has less area for people to walk by. The first time I thought it will be fine for walking on those paths because of its school area. They may have more wide for parent and their children to walk by and stay safe. Then I realize that most of the parent is driving and school bus are taking care of it.
Back to the question of is that safe if I’m the one who needs a wheelchair and taking care with the kid and elder people. I think half and half of it. Because the path quality is not wide enough to walk through. In another half, I think that is the school area, the speed of the car is 20 limit. The diver is will diver more carefully and looks more clear by driving slower. I think the area that I’m living has a great view of the park and playground for kids. Even is little unsafety by walking on a narrow path, but it’s a quiet place with fewer crime issues around my house.
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