Indeed, it&#x27;s not so much that americans are too lazy to walk, but they&#x27;ve been conditioned to not walk.<p>When I was a child, I road a big yellow school bus to my elementary school, at the time it seemed very far away, when my parents had to go to the school for any reason, they drove their car.<p>But now, looking at a map, I see that it was literally only a half mile from my house, but I <i>never</i> walked because it meant walking along some streets with heavy car traffic and no sidewalks, just an ungraded shoulder with no curb or other separation from the roadway.<p>It wasn&#x27;t until I moved to San Francisco that I realized that walking (or biking) is a far nicer way to get around.