Comments by "" (@kaitlyn__L) on "Can Paths Save America's Suburbs?" video.

  1. That's one of the benefits of our version of post-war car-centric development — such paths are basically free when compared to the roads that were getting laid at the same time, so they were heavily featured.  It wasn't like trying to get a new railway to Milton Keynes or Thamesmead where there were concerns over whether people would bother using them if they all had cars... a swath was being cut for a smooth level road anyway, so might as well stick pedestrian paths in amongst it all.  This network of pavements was of course pretty easy to partially-convert into cycle paths in the 90s, which is a huge leg-up even though they would be considered low-quality cycle paths compared to some of the specialty "cycle highways" that have been built in some places in the last 10 years.
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  2. Oh hey (or perhaps hei), my brother lives in Oulu. He always complains about the 4G being so much slower when he visits the UK :)  (His second favourite subject is how the homes are better insulated there! His third is probably how there's basically no traffic when visiting my sister-in-law's family up in Lappland, haha. No wonder he barely comes to the UK anymore! It sounds like a real downgrade, even just for a week or two. Especially since he visits our folks in the countryside — I think Glasgow where I live would be less of a disruption.)
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