{"id":3653,"date":"2016-08-27T00:13:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T04:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:35:13","slug":"elevation-profile-of-connected-interior-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/2016\/08\/27\/elevation-profile-of-connected-interior-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevation profile of connected interior spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3654\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/LoUfah\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3654\" class=\"wp-image-3654 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Preview_LexingtonProfile-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"Preview_LexingtonProfile\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Preview_LexingtonProfile.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Preview_LexingtonProfile-150x42.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enlarge this graphic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s downtown\u00c2\u00a0Lexington, summer,\u00c2\u00a0and hot. Poor air quality and oppressive heat are hazards for older walkers and those with cranky babies. An interior (mostly air conditioned) pedway exists that connects various buildings downtown and is\u00c2\u00a0a walking\u00c2\u00a0convenience for many folks.\u00c2\u00a0When\u00c2\u00a0Lexington has more shady pedestrian paths away from city streets, walking inside wouldn&#8217;t be so inviting and necessary.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some initial\u00c2\u00a0measurements. We figure a straight walk over the unique segments of the main pedway is at minimum 0.6 miles long with 5\u00c2\u00a0flights of stairs climbed. If you explored the side passages and parking towers, you could almost double the mileage and triple the stairs climbed. That&#8217;s in one direction. If you want to get creative, stairwells to the two highest buildings in Lexington are on this path.<\/p>\n<p>I might be thinking of these spaces as opportunities for recreation and fitness, but they are beneficial to folks who work or visit downtown.\u00c2\u00a0These interior paths offer a viable\u00c2\u00a0means of avoiding\u00c2\u00a0our busiest streets downtown, especially\u00c2\u00a0during poor\u00c2\u00a0weather. You could, for instance, connect Short and High streets and completely avoid the\u00c2\u00a0Main and Vine Street corridors. Broadway is crossed twice. You could safely navigate the urban massif\u00c2\u00a0using these pedway-connected air-conditioned spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Another advantage is access to amenities for locals. It&#8217;s not good\u00c2\u00a0on variety and more\u00c2\u00a0tuned toward tourists, but opportunities exist. There are shops for\u00c2\u00a0coffee, chocolate, beer, vegan salads,\u00c2\u00a0and fast food.\u00c2\u00a0The Straus Tobacconist is the closest shop to downtown that sells bourbon by the bottle and other odd and expensive stuff that a visitor might want. Yes, these shops are more expensive and not my first choice, but they are there.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot to criticize and\u00c2\u00a0praise about these pseudo-public spaces, but we can all appreciate they enable more pedestrian access. The more people that walk, the fewer that drive. I&#8217;m optimistic that when Town Branch Trail gets built out and connects downtown, these interior spaces will help extend the pedestrian network with\u00c2\u00a0unique and unusual destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Link to profile\u00c2\u00a0on Flickr:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/LoUfah\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/LoUfah<br \/>\n<\/a>and photos of inside:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHskESWHmF\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHskESWHmF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s downtown\u00c2\u00a0Lexington, summer,\u00c2\u00a0and hot. Poor air quality and oppressive heat are hazards for older walkers and those with cranky babies. An interior (mostly air conditioned) pedway exists that connects various buildings downtown and is\u00c2\u00a0a walking\u00c2\u00a0convenience for many folks.\u00c2\u00a0When\u00c2\u00a0Lexington has more shady pedestrian paths away from city streets, walking inside wouldn&#8217;t be so inviting and necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-maps","category-news","category-weather","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outragegis.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}