@Symbeline When I lived in Boston, it was a very short walk to the bank I put my savings account in. When we moved to Everett, that changed. Last Friday, I walked the 1.8 miles to the nearest branch of that bank in neighboring Chelsea. The route took me along 2nd Street where it passes directly under a very busy, elevated section of MA. Route 1 just after that freeway leaves the Tobin Bridge between Chelsea and Boston.
As I passed under the elevated freeway, I was more than a bit unnerved to see all the cans, bottles, bits of automobiles and chunks of pavement that had cleared the guardrails above and fallen the 60 feet or so to the surface of 2nd Street. I couldn’t help but think of the falling coke bottle scene from The Gods Must Be Crazy, and the next thought was, you think the god’s are crazy, how about the highway engineers?
Even though I really like to walk for the exercise, and I can walk it quicker than the two buses required will get me there, I probably will take the bus the next time I have to go over there just so I have some metal between me and all the falling debris thoughtless people toss out their windows as they drive.