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...
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
Love how Texas sidewalks just have ADA compliant ramps that just lead to... The grass. As if that helps anyone.
Make them wider, add more trees, add protected nike lanes.
Are we so bad we need corporate sponsorship of our lanes?
but where drive suv and trucks in city when scared and no big street???
(surely some boomer somewhere)
The post links to this article: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2016/07/01/the-new-york-of-2016-needs-the-wide-generous-sidewalks-of-1906
And we didn't have flipping joggers either! Ban them to parks only! Make them run in the street! /s
It was also a single lane originally built for horse and carriage. As more people got cars, more road space was needed. To get those size sidewalks back, they would have to narrow the road which would cause congestion and more sporadic traffic patterns
Most multilane roads are wider than they need to be for the speed limit, and a 2 lane bidirectional road with roundabouts can move the same amount of vehicles as a road with 2 or more lanes in both directions and a stop light. We have a ton of space in our streets needlessly dedicated to cars.
You seem to be unaware of induced demand...