I’m not much of a football guy. Baseball is more my speed. The whole “Let’s take our best young athletes and kill them at an early age of brain injuries” thing just doesn’t work for me.
Nonetheless, it’s hard to ignore the Superbowl. It was probably the only NFL game all season that I watched from kickoff to final play. And it was particularly heartening to see that Indianapolis received great reviews as a new urbanist downtown.
If you read the comments, and I almost always do, you’ll see that the conversation moved to the question of whether the $600 million that the public contributed to the football stadium could have been better used. It’s a good question on which I’m willing to chat.
But not today and not in a new urbanist blog. Instead, I’ll just revel in thinking about all the folks who visited Indianapolis for the game and found how great it was to walk from hotel to restaurant to pre-game party to Superbowl without needing their cars. It was a step (pun intended) in the right direction.
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Dave Alden is a Registered Civil Engineer who has worked on energy and land use projects in California, Oregon, and Washington. He also was the president of a minor league baseball team for a couple of seasons. He currently lives on the west side of Petaluma with his wife and four dogs. The blog that he writes can be found at http://northbaydesignkit.blogspot.com.
