SUV, Truck, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV, sedan, SUV, SUV, SUV, SUV.
The culture problem around big vehicles we've created with bad regulation and aggressive marketing is depressing.
It isn't just a culture problem, it's a tragedy of the commons.
When you're surrounded by giant vehicles, the only way to
befeel safe and see the road is to have a giant vehicle.Its deadly.
So glad they put that thick protective white line there so I know I won’t be hit 🥰
It’ll be super protective when it snows!
Ironically enough, this is how the pavements are in the ski resort I live in. It's a "shared zone", pedestrians have the same rights as vehicles. It slows everyone down because nobody knows when the next braying snowboarder trust-fund baby is going to stagger out in front of you.
Oh and as for the snow, we have adorable little mini snowploughs for the pedestrian bit
Edit to add pic -
Of course it uploaded upside down
And the snow will pile up on that lane, because the street needs to be free and nothing else.
If you are walking you're either poor or up to no good, in both cases we don't want you around these parts. Oh, your kids need to walk? Don't be lazy and DRIVE them where they need to go!
Don’t be lazy and DRIVE
For the briefest of moments I felt a spark of blinding hot rage in my heart. Now I am left with the lingering feeling of wanting to smash my head against a rock.
Thank you for that experience.
Why even allow people in this neighborhood? Just have cars and no people
Don't worry, self driving cars will get us there eventually
Megatron, is that you?
This what I hate about North America. Non walkable neighbourhoods.
Weirdly enough it is a walkable neighborhood legit this is the entire street in the picture, for some reason they decided to paint these people lanes instead of just leaving it.
There is no pavement/sidewalk...
Hardly walkable
Can you believe it that some see walkable neighbourhoods as a conspiracy? I just can’t wrap my head around why…
Wow it’s like you guys are trying as hard as possible to not put in sidewalks.
Next they'll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure
Is that a pedestrian symbol or the chalk outline of a pedestrian who got hit?
Must be a pedestrian symbol. If it was a chalk outline, it would stretch for two blocks.
I'm just wondering why that corpse was wearing such an unhealthy corset.
Unrealistic beauty standards. The corset is the reason they died.
What dystopian fuckery is this?
Idk. We have similar things around here for when they want to add more walkable spaces and less space for cars but they cannot or do not have the money for a full walkable path. Although usually they put some plastic bollards to avoid people parking or stopping on it.
They ain't bad, usually is in town and the max speed is 20 - 30 Km/h with the exception of main roads inside the town/city which is 50 Km/h. So although a proper sidewalk would be better they ain't bad and they are quick to install.
Except that they are bad if you consider safety and convenience of pedestrians. It is a testimonial of terrible planning in the first hand and the most 'I don't give a shit' solution second hand.
More like it was a guy who got flattened by a car and got painted over, because that's exactly what's going to happen if you try and walk there
I keep seeing joggers in my area choosing the bike lane over the sidewalk, presumably because asphalt is softer than concrete sidewalks. If paving a ped lane next to the bike lane is what it takes to isolate these wrong-way bike-lane-jogging scufflaws, then let's just do it and be done with it. We can cannibalize a car lane to make it happen. >:-)
Sidewalks in car-brained areas are super dangerous to jog on. People backing out of their driveway or turning across the road at 10-20km/h without looking. Trip hazards. Ankle destroying driveway cutouts or curved surfsces. Uneven grading.
Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?
I'd walk on the grass, the resistance is good for the muscles.
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
You've heard of bike gutters
No I haven't.
Replace the pedestrian with a bike and you have bike gutter
I think that's a "cycle lane" everywhere else.
Well, yeah, I figured that out. I was just pointing out that not everyone has encountered the term before.
Soooo...a sidewalk without the extra pavement?
Wow, I sure am glad that the kerb is there to protect those blades of grass!
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.
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.
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.
Well sure, if you were designing from scratch, but with existing neighborhoods, the city may not have the necessary right-of-way rights to do that, so what they've done here may be the only option, even if it could be executed better.
My point is that working to make cars less necessary is a process and if the only way a city can add a "sidewalk" is by carving it out of the existing road, then so be it. After all, by making some of the road devoted to pedestrians only, we are effectively reclaiming space back from cars, right? Isn't that a good thing?
Poor Polish village style infrastrucutre, now in your nearest city! (Authentic hole ridden roads not included)
What hell would this be to walk in, jesus christ...
You can be lying inside this line just like that guy!
Ask for a bike lane and hopefully you can get multi-use gutters
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.
oil
Awesome, now bikers can roll over stickman nuts every day to work and pretend it's the boss.
It is a joke...
This is blasphemy. What should we call walking on the side of the road in some sort of designated zone?
"Asking to get hit by a car"
Fake or not in the US? It definitely looks like standard USA fare, but this is not a pedestrian symbol I've ever seen
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.
It’s not fake, and weirdly enough it’s in a rich neighbourhood (or at least u need to be rich to be able to buy a house here)
It is exactly reality on some roads in my area. My town is growing and decently high income for the area, but some of the very first neighborhoods have drainage ditches along the roads rather than proper storm drains. So they are smaller, less expensive houses, but they are in the center of town with good access to everything.
So that leads to lots of sidewalks being built, trying to make things more connected and walkable, but certain roads have this exact “we painted a line and a walk symbol” sidewalk. The walk symbol looks correct though, not the weird one in the op.
Not in the US, but Canada!
Only in America
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
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.
Yo that's unreal
You’ve heard of “fuckcars”? Get ready for “fuck_cars”!
