Sidewalks: Not That Important In her article, “Sidewalks Can Make a Town a Neighborhood” Carolyn Egan discusses the ability that sidewalks have in developing children’s values. While she makes some good points within her article, Carolyn also makes several exaggerations and downplays key issues. Carolyn argues that children are being chauffeured around, but for most children it is unrealistic for them to walk everywhere. Most towns now a day have everything within them so spread out that children need an adult to drive them around to be able to reach most destinations. For example, I live in the suburbs where the nearest Target is two miles away, and the nearest Starbucks is one mile away. Does she think that everything I need toilet
