if lines can keep out sea bears, obviously they can keep out these pesky pedestrians from getting in front of my SUV!
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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It's the Sea Rhinos you should be more concerned about.
In my opinion, if this was done in a community that was not designed for sidewalks (the house are very close to the curb), then it's better than nothing. I'd like to see some bollards or post reflectors or something, but at least there is some effort.
On the other hand, if this is a new community and this is the sidewalk "solution" then fuck them.
Ideally we would have a car free utopia, but that doesn't happen overnight, so any step forward, even if it's a shuffle, is good, I think.
Each house has a driveway long enough to park in. Remove the pointless front lawn and driveway, switch to on-street parking, narrow the absurdly wide road a bit, and BAM, you got enough space for sidewalks, bike lanes, and trees. There is PLENTY of space on this street for everyone.
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I would never live somewhere with no sidewalks.
Most of Britain doesn't have sidewalks. But there's a slight difference in the law... In Britain, pedestrians have priority on ALL roads at ALL times (except for dual carriageways, obv). Pedestrians can even legally cross the road on red light as all traffic control signs and lights are merely suggestions for pedestrians and not a requirement.
Honestly still more than my city has on some streets
Sidewalks would interrupt my precious lawn!
Time for a car gulag. Garage gulag? Garlag? Gulage?
Ask for a bike lane and hopefully you can get multi-use gutters
Fake or not in the US? It definitely looks like standard USA fare, but this is not a pedestrian symbol I've ever seen
Fake, but not terribly far from reality in some areas.
Anywhere upper middle class enough to have lawns like that will have proper sidewalks. But in poor neighborhoods, sometimes local government just doesn't bother spending money to make sidewalks at all. But they also don't bother to paint any lines in the road. It's just road - no sidewalks, no bike lanes, no whatever these are. Just roads.
It’s not fake, and weirdly enough it’s in a rich neighbourhood (or at least u need to be rich to be able to buy a house here)
It is exactly reality on some roads in my area. My town is growing and decently high income for the area, but some of the very first neighborhoods have drainage ditches along the roads rather than proper storm drains. So they are smaller, less expensive houses, but they are in the center of town with good access to everything.
So that leads to lots of sidewalks being built, trying to make things more connected and walkable, but certain roads have this exact “we painted a line and a walk symbol” sidewalk. The walk symbol looks correct though, not the weird one in the op.
Not in the US, but Canada!
if anyone in this community uses a car you are part of the problem
Fuck those people for being middle class! /s
Places like this are all many of us can afford. Downtown is either expensive af or shitty. Schools in the burbs tend to be nice enough, there's enough room for kids and friends.
Yeah, there are other options, but most of us can't afford them or don't want to take the immediate lifestyle hit.
we need to densify the suburbs
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This is blasphemy. What should we call walking on the side of the road in some sort of designated zone?
"Asking to get hit by a car"
oil
Awesome, now bikers can roll over stickman nuts every day to work and pretend it's the boss.
It is a joke...