89-year-old pensioner rides bus 14 miles to cross the street
When Nancy Underwood wants to visit the shops across the street from her home, it takes her 90 minutes and 4 bus rides to do it.
NO SHORT TRIP: When Nancy Underwood wants to visit the shops across the street from her home, it takes her 90 minutes and four bus rides to do it. (Photo: Google) 
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...is completely on. The combination of terrain, property rights, and land use means we barely have roads that go in the right direction, yet the state also funnels a major fraction of NYC's commuter traffic (and that going into/out-of the rest of New England).
It's not an easy problem to solve, but the let's-have-a-quaint-Main-Street-surrounded-by-miles-of-one-acre-lots approach favored by 'residential' towns seems like a lesson in How Not To Do It. And unlike in corn country.... More
Crazy old woman
..the community for taking so long to fix the problem, but what if it was never brought to anyone's attention? It states that the roads were built without any regard for pedestrians or bicycles traffic, but these roads were built long before there were so many cars, pedestrians and bikes competing for right-of-way. Don't end your article with drama just to be dramatic.
I just looked on Google Maps and there are crosswalks to cross the street.
Check out google maps:
...went with her on this route & there were crosswalks but not ones that people observed,....she didn't feel safe crossing until she hit a main one.
Sad that's the first thing I thought of her dieing right before they finally open up the street. That's the craziest story ever, I feel so bad for her.
