What it feels like

A day in the new Sheboygan

Nobody has to plan the day around a bathroom or a warm room.

This is a proposal. It is an idea for Sheboygan, not a city plan or a decision.

Morning
A bus comes every ten minutes, free. Ride three stops to Deland.
Swim in the lake before work. A rinse shower is right there, and a warm changing room, and a locker for your bag.
Lunch
At lunch, walk the promenade. Every few hundred steps there is a shady bench, a bathroom with a green light, a bottle filler.
Take a swing on the Swing Trail for ten seconds, because you can.
Your phone is dead? There is a plug on the bench.
Evening
Evening at North Beach. Just a beach: sand, water, a long stone bench. No fences, no vendors, nothing to buy.
The lights come on along the whole two miles. You ride the Free Line home, still free, still frequent.

Morning
It is dark at 6:45 and the wind is off the lake. Your bus stop is heated, so you wait warm.
The Free Line takes you to the Geode, where the Water Floor is free and open to everyone.
You step into warm water with the lake out the window, and you feel like someone remembered you.
Lunch
At lunch, walk Broughton with a thermos. The path is plowed first.
At North Point, a fire burns in the open hearth, and a few strangers are standing around it, saying hello.
At Vollrath the hill is full of sleds, and the lodge at the rim has a bench by the radiant panel.
Dusk
On the ride home at dusk, a glass shelter glows ahead of you through the blowing snow.

Concept art. This is a proposal, not a plan.