Word: pedestrianized
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Perhaps mentality has something to do with it, but I think the reasons are far more pedestrian. The country is huge, the climate fierce (Ulaan Baatar is reputedly the capital city with the coldest average annual temperature, with ninety-degree summer days countered by epic winter nights), the people poor, the provinces remote and the trails rather lightly traveled...
...Bowen Road is the quintessential Hong Kong dog-walking, jogging, and pram-pushing path; its five well-paved kilometers hug the hillsides above the financial district of Central. Best avoided on the weekends when it becomes a pedestrian traffic jam, Bowen Road really shines at night. Nocturnal adventurers are rewarded with eye-level views over the top floors of the city's most famous buildings, and voyeuristic types can snatch glimpses of Hong Kong domestic scenes through brightly-lit apartment windows. A $5 taxi ride from Central will bring you to either end of the path...
...heroes are at it around me, too. They jog and bike past me, either oblivious to or in spite of the incredibly welcoming target the bridge would present to any number of potential terrorists. They don’t go crazy and entertain the thought of shutting down the pedestrian walk and putting guns on the bridge’s towers, even thought it may very well prevent the unknown next disaster, what The Onion has cleverly dubbed “the July 19 attacks.” Either deliberately or as an instinctive form of mental self-defense, they...
...collapse of yet another stock and the disgrace of one more CEO, this time at the once high-flying biotech firm ImClone. But after the scandals and meltdowns at Enron and Tyco and the self-serving stock recommendations at Merrill Lynch, the shamed corporate hero has become positively pedestrian. It takes a celebrity touch to hold our interest, and with ImClone we're getting the full weight of high society...
...haywire. He shoplifts a can of tuna because "food always tastes better when it's free," but helps an old man who has fallen to the curb. On Tuesday night, after boozing it up with his "pals" he snatches a wad of cash from the hands of an unsavvy pedestrian. Where the book could now turn heavy with plot or philosophy, "Crime and Punishment"-style, instead Paul casually continues his life, flirting with women and planning a vacation with his ill-earned gains. What keeps you reading is the mystery of "why," and the smart writing that refuses to answer...