"Our Miles Go in Circles"

Another fabulous conversation with an eighth-grader on the Downtown R.

ROBERT:  The city blocks are the shorter blocks, and there are twenty blocks in a mile.

EIGHTH GRADER:  What?!

ROBERT:  Twenty blocks make up one mile.

EIGHTH GRADER:  If you walk in a straight line?

ROBERT:  Um, right.

EIGHTH GRADER:  Our miles go in circles.

ROBERT:  What do you mean?

EIGHTH GRADER:  Like one mile where we're from is four times around the track.