City Life

2117 readers

1 users here now

All topics urbanism and city related, from urban planning to public transit to municipal interest stuff. Both automobile and FuckCars inclusive.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

Butterbee@beehaw.org

aponigricon@beehaw.org

remington@beehaw.org

105

My town's walkability nightmare: the closest southbound bus stop to a great mexican restaurant, an old folks' home, a 3 star hotel, two fast food restaurants, a bank, and other local businesses. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by bermuda@beehaw.org to c/citylife@beehaw.org

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pbjamm@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

As a cyclist/pedestrian always assume that, at best, drivers are indifferent to your well-being.