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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.

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[–] clorofolle@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh woah. Looking at that map gives me culture shock! Is that USA? How common is such a situation in your area?

[–] megopie@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This kind of thing depends a lot on the part of the US and the time the development was built.

Stuff built to serve suburban communities, built since 1960, and particularly in the “sun belt” are way more likely to be built with the assumption everyone will drive and thus walkability is an after thought.

It’s changing but a lot of new development in places like Florida, Arizona and Texas are still being built like this.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Basically anywhere with a conservative government is still built like this. Public transit is socialism!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Very common. NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, and maybe a few other big cities are more pedestrian and public transit friendly, but most US cities are exactly like this. It's not uncommon to have to walk a couple of miles to a bus stop.