When I was a teenager, I use to walk home from after school activities instead of riding the activity bus or calling my mom to pick me up. The walk was a good 1.5 miles through neighborhoods and a field. For the most part (minus the field part), I was walking on a sidewalk through newer developed neighborhoods that had been nothing more than cornfield just a few years prior. While the high school was a good 25 years old by the time I was a freshman, the school and the township had come together to make transporting children safe. This meant putting in a stop light in front of the school with a crosswalk as well as developing sidewalks through the neighborhoods and along major thorough-fares to the school.