{"id":13397,"date":"2014-12-02T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=13397"},"modified":"2014-12-01T19:13:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T03:13:27","slug":"not-for-walkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=13397","title":{"rendered":"Not for walkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I may have discovered the worst place in Canada to try to go for a walk.\u00a0 The area around Toronto’s Pearson airport is a wasteland, the sidewalks are littered\u00a0with holes and obstacles besides the fact they lead to nowhere.\u00a0The obstacles\u00a0seem to be primarily signs telling you to use a different\u00a0non-existent path and unidentifiable\u00a0\u00a0flattened metal things that have come off of vehicles.<\/p>\n

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My favourite non helpful thing though was the cross walk that led to an island in the roadway with no other exit other than to push the button and wait to go back the way you had come. Later I discovered a less palatable\u00a0frogger style run across a highway offered but I declined.<\/p>\n

I think that the Cab industry must be in charge of the sidewalks<\/p>\n

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Some of the images from my survival of this pedestrian dystopia can be seen bellow but the most colourful thing and people happening there was the Jem and the Holograms <\/a>convention that was meeting in the hotel I was staying at. (Ah the 1980’s what joy you continue to give the world)\u00a0 All of the images were shot with the Pentax Q7.<\/p>\n

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