What good is open access past a car-making industrial plant?
On the face of it, yeah, it sounds pretty dire walking past a car-making plant. But if the alternative is walking past a car-making plant by road, or worse, along a busy main road with no pavement or grassy verge, then I'd be for keeping the path.
I suppose it depends what sort of walking you do, but sometimes you're bound to find yourself following a path past a factory, housing estate, rubbish dump, sewage works, or whatever. In a crowded place like Britain, you'll do it far more often than in NZ, but that shouldn't suggest that such paths are useless. I've walked all over Britain, and I've walked all kinds of paths. I've walked from the centre of cities such as London, Liverpool and Newcastle, into the surrounding countryside, and I rely on all kinds of paths to keep me off the main roads, where some motorists have scant regard for anyone on foot.
Posted: 19/10/2007 at 08:21
