Awesome, now bikers can roll over stickman nuts every day to work and pretend it’s the boss.
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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.
It is a joke…
Only in America
I saw a similar thing on the Amalfi coast in Italy, though the roads are so damn narrow there idk how else it could possibly work.
And Canada. Half the residential streets in my city don’t have sidewalks, the rich folks get walking paths behind their houses so they don’t have to mingle with the poors walking out in the street
Ask for a bike lane and hopefully you can get multi-use gutters
Wow it’s like you guys are trying as hard as possible to not put in sidewalks.
Imagine seeing this when house hunting and still buying the house. You’d have to have worms in your brain to want one of these ugly McMansions with no sidewalk
Oh these ain’t McMansions, they’re the “missing middle” it’s basically row houses but with car centric infrastructure
That doesn’t look like middle-density housing, it’s just slightly more dense low-density housing
If the garage is used as internal space, then row houses are plenty high enough density. The occupant could have a much nicer back yard without the setback (front yards are car infrastructure), but the road is not too wide, just awful to be on.
If we assume 1.8-2.1 people per house, then these blocks are about and 300m^2 with about 100m^2 out the front in tye public spacs e per house (property boundary to middle of road]. 5000 people per km^2 for the residential area, assume 50% as much commercial/parks elsewhere (~100m^2 per resident) and you’re at over 3000 people per km^2
This is in the ideal missing middle range if a little bit low, it’s just awful missing middle (that will probably also have its density ruined hy a sea of carparks in the commercial areas and a highway, but that’s a separate issue).
Those aren’t really “rowhouses” how I think of that term. They look quite wide, and have a fairly deep setback from the street. Additionally the street is very wide, and the development looks far too homogenous.
Whatever you want to call them, they share at least one wall, are two story, have a deep aspect ratio and side access on the other wall is minimal (if there at all). The only awful features are the set back and the giant garage (which can just be used for indoor space|.
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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.
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
The presence of the paint makes this nightmare area more walkable than plenty of places in the Failed States of America. I once had the misfortune of living in a place where the presence (or much more often, absence) of sidewalk was completely up to the owner of the property the stretch of road in question abutted. The rare property owner who chose to add sidewalk created a completely useless, disconnected decoration.
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Lots of cities mandate new construction has to build sidewalks in zones without any. I think the idea is that eventually, as long as the sidewalk is up to code, new buildings will handle adding sidewalk instead of the city.
It’s a very long term plan that makes these long term idiotic stretches, but it’s not the worst way to do something that would otherwise not happen.
Who would use this? Wouldn’t you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?
I thought of this too, and then I realized that wheelchair users are completely fucked by this decision.
This is an American suburban. The petite burgerosie living in those houses would shoot your or call the cops to shoot you for walking on their lawns, or run you over with a Ford F 69,000 turbo jumbulator hepta-cab ultra-pickup if you walked in the street.
(this might not be an American suburb. It’s hard to tell. All suburbs exist in a discrete liminal hell dimension)
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they argue that parking minimum reform or bike lanes would “ruin the character of their neighborhood” like what there isn’t any and never was
I’d walk on the grass, the resistance is good for the muscles.
Where I live people will park their
tankstrucks in the driveway and block the sidewalk. At least they won’t be able to do that here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people just start parallel parking on the people gutterNo no no, I didn’t key your truck. I was simply walking on the sidewalk and swinging my key up and down in front of me. The key just ran into your truck… Multiple times.
It had it comin’
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I’m guessing they call this “multiuse”? And I’m guessing it gets filled with parked cars immediately.
Who the hell designed this? I want to see the person who made this burn in hell
They are probably laughing on their yacht right now.
