They saw people walking in the road because there are no sidewalks and decided to paint a line, brilliant, job well done.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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You can be lying inside this line just like that guy!
I’m guessing they call this “multiuse”? And I’m guessing it gets filled with parked cars immediately.
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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Honestly still more than my city has on some streets
if lines can keep out sea bears, obviously they can keep out these pesky pedestrians from getting in front of my SUV!
It's the Sea Rhinos you should be more concerned about.
Honestly it probably was or maybe is a question of when until the system that produces bike gutters as "infrastructure" figures out that hey, this works just as well for pedestrians as it does for bike.
That amount is basically zilch, but we got the first idea through and it's widely accepted so why not save some money here, too
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.
if anyone in this community uses a car you are part of the problem
On the other hand, there isn't another option you have in that community.
This community is super walkable and is a good 5 min walk to a big grocery store too
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I don't care that the GULAG shut down in 1960.
We're opening it up again.
And we're putting the monster that came up with this in there, in time out, so they can think about what they did.
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
It looks jank, but it's clearly a private condo/townhouse development, so it's a private road and not an "official" marker.
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.
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