Last week I discussed how things were changing locally. Now, the sun is shining and the lockdown is pretty much total. It's like we are in a post-apocalyptic movie; there's hardly any traffic, the buses are still passing our house every ten minutes or so, but this time they are almost always empty. On the other hand, I have never seen so many walkers. Carefully spaced out into family groups, dodging into the road rather than risking getting too close, they have occupied the peri-urban lanes and paths like nothing we've seen before.
It makes sense. Why not explore your locality in the 1 hour of exercise outside the house you are allowed. You can't go the gym, can't go shopping, the tourist attractions have all closed - even the RSPB nature reserves. I wonder, will people get to like this, will there be more support for traffic controls, and more desire to open up the peri-urban areas with more paths and green spaces? And will these ideas start to feed into regional planning?
It makes sense. Why not explore your locality in the 1 hour of exercise outside the house you are allowed. You can't go the gym, can't go shopping, the tourist attractions have all closed - even the RSPB nature reserves. I wonder, will people get to like this, will there be more support for traffic controls, and more desire to open up the peri-urban areas with more paths and green spaces? And will these ideas start to feed into regional planning?
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