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Health & Fitness

Walkin' in LG! Nobody Walks in LG

There was this cool protest song from the 1960s called "Where have all the flowers gone?" As I walk along my wonderful city here, I have another question: "Where have all the sidewalks gone?"

I realize not every inch nor acre of city and residential land are always accompanied with sidewalks, but I must say our Lemon Grove is a strange one when it comes to its sidewalk standards.

Walk around, and you will see. Or you will experience. One moment you are feeling all safe and snug on your little runway of cement, all set aside for you as you stroll alone, or with a friend or pooch. Then all of the sudden - wham. You are off-roading it, grinding on gravel or rocks or worse yet, playing "chicken" with some Winnebago coming your way. 

It's crazy. Then the next few steps or streets, you are once again enjoying a nice flat walkway.

I want to know - who decides where these sidewalks go ... and where they stop? Who waves the wand and grants some streets with sidewalks and others with gravel and rock? 

Are some homes favored over others? Are such homes and businesses part of some secret society that gains favor through some elite globalists? Are some homes owned by friends of city planners? Are homeowners supposed to create these walkways but haven't gotten around to it?  Is it bad planning on the part of the city's buyer of white cement?  

What is it?

And are there plans to remedy it? How much friendship or cement would that take? Is someone finding out? Maybe we could at least get consistent and take all the existing sidwalks and place them together on one long stretch so we don't have the intermittent sidewalk. Might save a misstep or two.

We could also have a fundraiser.  Make money to fill out our city and residential streets, call it "A Walk for the Curb" or something like that.

In either case, I do believe our city has got to do something about the situation. It's got half of us without a safe sidewalk, and all the walkers and runners going back and forth.

And it's simply got me humming a tune. "When will we ever learn? When will we eeeeever learn."

Jim Ellis is a writer and producer living in Lemon Grove, CA. He can be reached at www.LegacyProductions.org.


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