The Golden Shoes treasure hunt makes walking fun in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a Golden Shoe treasure hunt to promote walking. 100 shoes are painted gold, then left where pedestrians can find them all over the city. Anyone who finds a golden shoe can turn in the attached certificate for a free pair of shoes and a chance at the jackpot prize. The treasure hunt makes it fun for whole families to go walking new places around Cambridge.

 

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Other interesting topics in Episode 69:

• The Kids and Transportation education program teaches mobility to children in Portland, Maine.

• The Cambridge Walks coalition promotes walking in several ways.

• The Connecticut Bicycle Coalition in Hartford, Connecticut, has issued a report, Deadly By Design.

• A National Heritage Corridor follows the Blackstone River from Worcester, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island.

• The group Local Motion promotes walking and bicycling in Burlington, Vermont.

• An historic pedestrian bridge has a modern problem where it ends at a busy road in Brunswick, Maine.

• The Ashuelot covered bridge has pedestrian walkways along both sides in New Hampshire.

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