Sarasota Livin'

Planning Livable Communities has links to a Columbia, Mo. organization called the PedNet Coalition

The PedNet Coalition is a group of individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations with a vision for the future of Columbia, in which it is safe and pleasant to walk, cycle, wheel, and skate throughout the city.

We hope to give citizens a real choice regarding the mode of transportation they elect for traveling to work, school, or recreaton as well as to encourage healthier lifestyles and a cleaner environment. Not having to incur the substantial costs required to own and/or drive a car can permit dramatic improvements in quality of life for thousands of people.

The PedNet is a proposed network of nature trails and urban "Pedways" that will connect residential subdivisions, employment centers, businesses, parks, schools (including local colleges and MU), the public library, the recreation center, and Downtown. It will enable pedestrians, cyclists, wheelchair users, in-line skaters, and skateboarders to travel safely and pleasantly between these locations. The PedNet masterplan describes a twenty-year timescale for achieving this goal by building new nature trails and adding Pedways to selected roads.

My vision of Sarasota includes these ideas... I much prefer biking / walking to driving .. Yes I drive to work everyday but I do like biking for short trips.