Just in time for the coming oil apocolypse

I just found out from my neighbor who knows these things that the town planning commission approved a half-mile long sidewalk extension, which will span from the nursing home at Gray Drive all the way to White's Mill Road (where the "Historic District", and therefore the continuous sidewalk-connecting-everything, begins). I do not know when this will happen, but it is FABULOUS news. We walk all the time anyway (starting from our home on Henderson Court), but it's freaking stressful because drivers in this town do not seem too used to pedestrians. So certain busy times of the day are just really unpleasant, borderline scary, to be walking. Once this project is complete, though, it will be a breeze to get basically anywhere in town, and that's awesome. It's especially awesome because for now, our strategy is to get to Main Street as quickly as possible (involving cutting through a funeral home parking lot), since the other main drag, Valley Street, is the one with big chunks lacking a sidewalk or even a shoulder. But that part of Main Street is not pretty. Valley Street, on the other hand: very pretty. Phenomenally pretty. Pretty houses, pretty gardens, pretty trees. Shade. We will have no excuse not to take walks. And then, of course, there's all the useful places we can get: grocery store, post office, drug store, coffee/bookshop, library, doctor's office, wildly overpriced boutiques (just for looking). I love this small town living.