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the-busy-ghost · 2 years

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I know I’m preaching to the choir on tumblr but I am so FED UP of not being able to walk to places that are really close to me because it is assumed that everyone has a car and would only use their feet for recreational purposes so there are long stretches of road with no path alongside them, and no public paths that don’t take you six miles out of your way for what should have been a quick trip to the next village over.

#Sure I could walk along the road- if I wanted to get killed by Roddy the Perthshire Boy Racer #Or Gordon the estate agent in his fancy car speeding because he just can't be late for his meeting #Not to mention being right across the dual carriageway from somewhere but having to go the long way round #So I want to cross the road then walk uphill to the village which should only be a mile on foot at most #But sadly there was a traffic jam in the middle of Dundee so the traffic is backed up halfway to Perth #And I can't cross the dual carriageway without getting uncomfortably close to frustrated people in SUVs #So I now have to go two miles down the road to find an underpass and then walk back up the other side of the road #which often doesn't have a path just a badly cut verge; all the while breathing in petrol #All of this takes nearly two hours for what was essentially CROSSING THE ROAD #There should be pavements beside all public roads though no matter how small this is a hill I will die on #And a footbridge or underpass for every turn off #People who live in the countryside shouldn't need to take their lives into their hands just to walk from their house to the nearest town #The alternative being to hike uphill through somebody else's woods where you can never be sure if they're shooting and cross a river #This taking you out of your way by about four miles and then you have to carry your shopping all the way back again #The roads belong to foot passengers (and horses) first #Cars only came along in the last hundred years but they've taken over and people don't seem to realise it

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