Pedestrian walkways: has the reality finally dawned on US?

Walkway along Parliament Road, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Temporary runways?

We need to design roads for everyone, walkers, riders and even planes. How many roads in Kenya can serve as temporary runways?

Roads are some of the few open spaces in Kenya. Strange in a country that emulates the US or UK and their parks. Why do we copy US political system and not their parks or recreation system?

Will the new government force counties to designate parks when we still have some land available?

Why so much focus on residential houses when we spend only a third of our lives sleeping?

We live in the tropics and walking outdoors is full of fun. But we take outdoor life for granted.

A winter would make us appreciate our fine weather and endless summers. It's strange that convertibles are rare on our roads.

Mzungus who lived in Kenya before uhuru really appreciated the weather and had verandahs to enjoy outdoors. They had lived through winters.

We could add that building walkways makes it easy to leave cars at home, a plus for climatic change.

Why is building walkways an afterthought just like building overpasses over expressways and superhighways?

It seems the reality of socio-economics has finally melted, 60 years after uhuru.