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You're looking at that right by the way. THREE freeway ramps!! I walked this last week and it was genuinely terrifying. The first freeway ramp when coming from the bus stop has NO pedestrian lights or signals.
Also those of you with good eyes will notice that there is NO SIDEWALK south of the bus stop. None. If you want to walk south on that particular street (which is 5 lanes btw) then you have to cross the freeway to get to the other side of the road.
Is it bad it i think that this isn’t that bad at all?
I mean it would be nicer if the sidewalk continued on both sides sure, but freeway enterance ramps are typically about as hard for pedestrians to cross as roundabouts given the slow speed you need to take them and single direction of traffic. It looks like there are even marked crossings and a sidewak, so this walk is very much intended. The freeway itself is grade separated and so not a factor in any of this, and while the road is five lanes it’s a arterial road so that’s quite resonable.
It's really bad. Don't fool yourself. Typical layout of a car-centric design.
What would improve it in your view? I mean it’s an artery joining a freeway, there’s going to be cars.
At least a small bridge over the multi lane street.
Proper ped/cycle infrastructure is at grade with cars doing the climbing.
given the scale involved i don’t think you’d be tight on space with just a pedestrian ramp, much less rasing or lowering the road. Given how it’s just two lanes each way plus a turning lane i’d imagine a stoplight’s pedestrian cycle should be enough.
Depends on driver behavior where you live, I think. I have zero confidence in marked pedestrian crossings, and expect everyone to take these kinds of ramps as fast as they possibly can, possibly while texting.
As a cyclist/pedestrian always assume that, at best, drivers are indifferent to your well-being.
You're kind of right about the freeway being "as slow as a roundabout" but the third crossing is the worst because it's a slip road without a yield sign, so you have to rely on drivers actually looking at you and stopping for you. Fortunately traffic here is so bad that the stop light ahead usually results in cars being stuck all the way on the freeway, allowing you to cross between them. There is a crossing light for pedestrians but only pedestrians can see it, like one of the ✋ signals youd see in a city. The cars have no awareness on whether you're "allowed" to cross.
The slip road is made especially worse by being quite smooth and straight so instead of going the speed suggested by the signs (20 mph), most drivers go 40 or even 50 down the ramp before stopping or going for the stop light.
This is also true if you intend to stop there and cross the road to go south because there's no sidewalk on your side of the road. The second crossing is another freeway slip road. This one does have a yield sign but you still have to rely solely on drivers seeing you and actually caring enough to stop, which isn't great considering it's a semi-blind corner and they're already speeding up to go highway speeds.