Adventures of the Week

This week has been adventurous and exciting. We took field trips to the Parkway and to the Wissahickon Park. The group experienced pretty good weather when we walked along the Parkway; however it rained both days that we went to the park. We were supposed to analyze how the places we visited could be designed better in order to be more pedestrian friendly. The Fairmount Park Association should really try to do more to make these places more hospitable to the public. Some of the revisions that need to be made to the Parkway are there need to be more restaurants and bathrooms for people to use that enjoy walking along the Parkway. The Wissahickon Park needs more places for sit and relax. The crosswalks are not for people without cars because it takes like ten minutes to cross the street! There also needs to be a better pathway to get to and from the train station. The only two ways to get to the train station is walking along that narrow sidewalk or up the 100 stairs! I hope that the Fairamount Park Comisson tries to fix these issues. Aside from the problems some things in the park are great like the scenery and the trail markers that are available in case you get lost.