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December 23, 2007
There Should be People
I’ve been making occasional forays from the office to the Post Office in downtown Durham. It’s about a fifteen minute walk out and back. During that time, it would be surprising to pass more than two people. This is while walking through the middle of one of North Carolina’s larger cities. Not right.
There’s lots of re-development and Durham is in far, far better shape than I left it two years ago but still, there aren’t any people. There should be a department store or two, some smaller shops, sandwich counters and drug stores. All that’s going in is more residential space. There should be people walking out to lunch, out to pickup a few things, dropping off letters. Instead, the place is dead.
Compare to London, were I to walk through Westminster on a Sunday for the same amount of time, I would encounter almost a hundred times more people. It gives a city a feeling of life. Where there are no people, the opposite feeling prevails.
Filed under General.
Posted by eric at December 23, 2007 09:31 PM