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Where the Sidewalk Ends -week 1

Writer's picture: Stacey BrownStacey Brown

Updated: Jun 25, 2024


I've decided to start an informal, personal study of the sidewalks in Concord: what and who they connect and where they end.






The Pleasant Street sidewalk running west ends at the entrance of St. Paul's School. You can run along it, making a right onto Rectory Road where there is a sidewalk and crosswalk over Pleasant to the Fisk Road sidewalk by Parker Academy.





Oddly, the Fisk Road sidewalk ends 100' from the Winant Park entrance.


No sidewalks to the park, no bike racks in the parking lot, and no bus stop nearby.




Fisk Road is beautifully shady in the morning, but cars are moving quickly and the shoulder is very narrow.




Thackery Road off of Fisk has cluster developments, but no sidewalks.


Taking a right onto Little Pond, which has beautiful views and a newly paved surface, but a very narrow shoulder.


An elderly woman passed me pedaling uphill in the road, and smiling, with a tennis rack on her back.

There is a sidewalk just before and after Samuels Drive, 430 feet long. And then it ends before the Auburn Street intersection.

There is no sidewalk to or from the popular Langley Trail from the road, but there are informal trails that connect to it through the woods from the neighboring cluster developments.

The sidewalks on Auburn Street begin just before the Columbus Ave intersection and then there are sidewalks on both sides of the street.

Turning left onto Centre Street, sidewalks on both sides , too, and passing by the welcoming Trolley Stop and White Park entrance, built over 100 years ago.

Perhaps we should follow in the footsteps of Concord's founding mothers and fathers and invest more in the infrastructure that connects us to each other and our natural resources.

Thanks for joining me!


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