What the fuck are you people smoking in Philly?

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I would like to congratulate mad and jays for taking this thread somewhere I never thought it could go. I'm thinking that, like most things, rubber sidewalks are more practical in theory than in actual practice. The cost to "rubberize" a whole city would be astronomical, let alone the time it would take to actually do. The tearing up of the sidewalks would take forever, hauling away of the concrete, preparing to put down the new sidewalk...it's a long process I would think. Now any contractor worth his weight is going to take his time doing this because he is going to get paid a shitload of money. that is unless you are going to let the dpw do it and that's going to cause more problems in the long run.

Because the future first involves humans re-embracing the idea of walking to the store, instead of driving to the store. Most answers to the problem of urban sprawl is to reduce the need for driving by re-intoducing local businesses and amenities into pre-existing neighborhoods, and making communities more walkable by recognizing that the furthest a person will walk to get to a particular destination is 500 feet before they will choose to drive their instead. Part of this solution means re-construction of footpaths and sidewalks. The future also involves making better use of refuse as raw material, and the reconstitution of tires as pavement for a walking surface is both beautiful in an ironic and sustainable way.

good luck with that. Americans have been a fat, lazy sociey for far too long to go back to the ways of the past now.