“The Victorians left us street trees and parks. National parks were the legacy of the second world war. What will our legacy be?” he says. “What if 75 years after the creation of national parks, our politicians created their own legacy for future generations – a proper national walking and wheeling network that’s as easy to understand as the road and rail network but far more joyful, healthy, green, relationship-building and community-connecting and inspiring? What’s not to like?”
Photo: Fabio De Paola for the Guardian
It was a pleasure to walk Slow Ways from Kidsgrove to Macclesfield with Patrick Barkham for the Guardian. It was a great hike that celebrated Slow Ways and included no less than four kingfishers!
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The Slow Ways team is now working on a new citizen-geography project called Make Ways. While Slow Ways shows good ways to go, Make Ways will enable people to map ways they’d like to go… but can’t. You can find out more about Make Ways and back the project here.