Fairwood Park — Attraction in Columbus

I attended a "public transit" event [sponsored by Sierra Club Ohio and several other organizations] yesterday [9-2-2021] at Fairwood Park.

Approximately twenty of us from all over central Ohio gathered at the covered shelter that is closest to the playground [near the center of the park] to share stories about our experiences of public transit and to strategize for lobbying our congressional representatives and senators to urge them to vote for additional federal funding for public transit.

I had never before been to that neighborhood of Columbus; however, Fairwood Park is easily visible from COTA's #5 bus route so it had been quite simple for me to get there and back.

Obviously, it would have been completely appropriate for a "public-transit-themed" event to be easily accessible via public transit.

Our "public transit" event had included people from other parts of central Ohio as well as people who live in that immediate neighborhood [some of whom had intentionally traveled there in order to be able to attend and some of whom just happened to be in the area when we had convened].

It had been great fun to watch several neighborhood children using the nearby playground while we had been meeting.

I have now provided the correct street address for Fairwood Park to Google Maps. When I had first been researching how best to travel to that location, Google Maps had not had an address for that park which had made it extremely difficult for me to figure out how to get there and back most efficiently.

Now Google Maps has an address for Fairwood Park that hopefully will make it easier for people in the future to...

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