Only near-impossible in Franklin: biking, walking to school illegal in Saratoga Springs

ABOVE: Walking or biking to school here in Franklin is not yet illegal. Just incredibly dangerous.

Switchboard, from NRDC :: Kaid Benfield's Blog :: Biking, walking to school illegal in Saratoga Springs.

Amazingly, Saratoga Springs was cited only a week ago in Business Week, in an article titled "Livable Saratoga," to illustrate places "with a small-town feel where you can walk to work and shopping."  But not, apparently, to school.

UPDATE via Sustainable Cities Collective:

The ironies to this story are many. To begin with, there is clearly a crosswalk in front of the school that appears to connect to a well used path. Whether a cross-walk on a two lane country road without a traffic light or a stop sign is an invitation to frogger is an open question. Secondly, Kaid Benfield of the Natural Resources Defense Council notes that Saratoga Springs was commended only a week ago by Business Week for being an "anti-suburbia" where "you can walk to work and shopping".

In a greater irony Saratoga Springs is, of course, the chosen home of anti-sprawl post-peak oil zealot James Howard Kunstler. .... Kunstler has yet to acknowledge the story brewing in his own backyard.