(05-23-2020, 05:52 PM)creative Wrote: So if I walk to the variety store or grocery store or pizza place in my neighborhood and cross busy streets, that doesn’t count, because my final destination is back home?
No, the point is that De Keere gives the impression of not understanding walking as a way of getting somewhere. We don’t know for sure how he lives his life, but it sounds like maybe he doesn’t use walking as a way to get places. So maybe he walks around his block (or to the neighbourhood park, or whatever) for recreation, but doesn’t walk to any actual destinations.
(please don’t quibble about whether “the park” is an “actual destination”; at a certain point, you’re supposed to put in an effort to try to understand what I’m trying to say and respond to that, rather than to the exact words I actually ended up typing)
My view is that while some of the things he said in the article make some sense (most importantly, it doesn’t make sense to give a red to a major street at a tiny street unless there is somebody on the tiny street who needs a green; how big “major” has to be and how small “tiny” has to be for this to be true is a debatable matter), he is not thinking creatively and flexibly. Just because the parenthesized sentence is true doesn’t mean that the only alternative is to make vehicles stop at every cross street.