Sidewalks used to be wider
Sidewalks used to be wider
Attached: 1 image Sidewalks used to be wider. It’s a fact that rarely gets acknowledged in discussions about road diets. Usually the road diet debate is framed as taking space AWAY from cars. Really it’s about giving it BACK to pedestrians. Here’s a good article about it https://tinyurl.com/2s4bzxw...
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you guys getting sidewalks?
So many places in the US don't have sidewalks and it's a real tragedy. It sends the message that not only is this community not walkable, it is also hostile to pedestrians and children.
Seeing new housing developments being built without sidewalks is so disheartening.
The worst is when there's no sidewalk and the community is really sprawly, yet there are desire paths in the grass. It shows that even though the odds are stacked against walking, a bunch of people still do.
My grocery store is literally 0.7mi from my house, but there's no sidewalks along the two 6 lane roads I'd need to follow to feet there.
not only is this community not walkable, it is also hostile to pedestrians and children.
The ones with the pedestrian path painted in the road are even worse I think, almost like the designers actively decided not to build a pedestrian path there
The only plus about where I live is I believe sidewalks are mandated on new developments. This is great, but it results in a lot of sidewalk - grass - sidewalk - grass. Eventually we'll get there, I suppose...
In Italy we have a similar problem: new developments must have cycle paths, but that means that we have many useless cycle paths in the middle of nothing,
Maybe one day, maybe...
Love how Texas sidewalks just have ADA compliant ramps that just lead to... The grass. As if that helps anyone.