I enjoyed Silvia Ascarelli’s June 13 letter, “Reduce the $9.6M School Busing Bill,” advocating a long-range plan to enable kids to walk and bike safely to school.
I agree. The whole township is only five miles by five miles or so. Kids love to walk and bike, and they don’t like riding on school buses. Most of us need more exercise. Walking and biking are considered by many to be the best exercises.
Instead of creating world-class car infrastructure, we should be working to create slow car infrastructure and fast, convenient, safe, world-class bicycling and walking infrastructure on protected, landscaped pathways.
That strategy would pay dividends for a thousand years in saved busing dollars, less pollution, better mental and physical health for the kids, and a more civilized and gracious life in general.
Henry Murphy
Hereford Drive
