City Commission pushing pedestrian-friendly agenda

Wednesday's warm and sunny weather found Barb Morris strolling north on Michigan Street with her daughter Kambria, working off a few calories en route to her mother's house. But Morris said she didn't usually think of hoofing it when considering her transportation options. "I guess I should," she said. "If we walk, we go to visit, or we go to the park. We don't go to the stores or anything." That Morris was making any effort to walk should hearten members of the Lawrence City Commission, whose fondness for "pedestrian transportation" is increasingly shaping how they consider policy and development proposals.