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Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
A big problem in the United States is that we've lived under auto-mandatory sprawl for so long that when most people hear "we want to make it so more people walk" this is the sort of walk that they picture in their mind.
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Drew Melbourne
@drewmelbourne.com
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I'm reminded of the year I spent staying at a hotel across a major thoroughfare (but only about 100 feet) from the corporate office. There WAS a crosswalk, but it only went halfway across the street, presumably that's where "guy who paints crosswalks" was run over.
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Wendell B
@wndlb.bsky.social
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Recently installed handicap access, so I really don't see cause for complaint
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cdpositive
@cdpositive.bsky.social
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My guess; small two lane road (with sidewalks & crosswalk in the 1960's?) was widened to 4 lanes (increased traffic caused by further out cheaper home prices) which required the guard rail without removing part of the old sidewalk/crosswalk. The phone company removed the phone booth. 😉
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Martin Allen
@beebirdmoth.bsky.social
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I recently moved to a suburb with well maintained sidewalks spanning residential and commercial areas. I’ve never seen so many fit elderly people in my life. The sidewalks are wide enough for wheelchair users. If you build sidewalks, people use them.
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David
@crookedknight.bsky.social
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I know the exact retirement home they're talking about and yeah, the area is utterly unwalkable. My grandmother's neighborhood has speed bumps and an extra-wide 25 MPH roadway that when put together *kinda* make up for the lack of sidewalks, but on the main drag, forget it.
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@bagofbleeps.bsky.social
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Stroads with no sidewalks...
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JarekFA
@jarekfa.bsky.social
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I just completed a weekend of ebiking across Manhattan and Brooklyn to visit friends, playgrounds and playdates with the kids and it drives me crazy that I can’t share this with the world. Williamsburg to South Slope door to door in 24 mins.
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braak
@braak.bsky.social
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That and "walk? The grocery store is five miles away, I'm not *walking* there"
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Barb Cummings
@rahirah.bsky.social
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The biggest problem here is, even if we vastly improve the pedestrian infrastructure, (and I'm all for doing that!) it's still gonna be 110 degrees for four going on five months a year. 🫤
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Sins of a Swoler Empire
@mightycw.bsky.social
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took this right around the corner from my place the other day
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jaime
@jaimel.bsky.social
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Hilariously everything you need to know about Giuliani’s credentials as a psychopath is that he installed these on the busiest stretch of 5th avenue in midtown to impede pedestrians and prioritize turns onto 5th from side streets by cars.
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cottagecoregoblin.bsky.social
@cottagecoregoblin.bsky.social
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Downtown my city is walkable AF. Beautiful, full of options. There's a Greenway! The rest of the city? This just randomly everywhere & everywhere else is trying to not fall in ditches for the people who HAVE to walk. Which is like half the city & they can't afford to live downtown. Or anywhere.
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Chairman Goa Tse-tung
@jctenton.bsky.social
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i really think more people would support public transit if they'd lived with actual transit. if you're imagining transit = a rattly-ass bus that travels at 10 mph that goes nowhere and maybe comes once an hour to your stop which is just a sign on a pole then of course that sounds terrible
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Mark Shatraw
@markshatraw.bsky.social
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The best lunch place near me requires crossing a six-lane highway. Even in the crosswalk it's a two Hail Mary experience
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Chris
@hikodi.bsky.social
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Oh sweet, this apartment complex is across the street from a Starbucks and a theater! Walking directions: 43 minutes.
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Judge Muck
@judgemuck.bsky.social
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Sidewalks only for circling an intersection! Amazing.
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Time to watch bad movies on purpose 👻
@fair-itself.bsky.social
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It's also impossible for people to imagine anyone walking on purpose currently. Almost every time I go out, someone in a car pulls up to ask if I need a ride and then gets, like, worried and confused when I say no. It's wonderful to have caring neighbors, but dude, I'm just out enjoying the weather
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KB
@sorrykb.bsky.social
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My dad lives in a 55+ single family home community. They have ridiculously wide streets. And zero sidewalks. When I brought it up once they said sidewalks attract crime.
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Edward Carney
@ecarney.bsky.social
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I find it morbidly fascinating that pedestrian & bicycle infrastructure are so alien to the US that it seems like we don't even comprehend what they're for. I love to discover a new bike path & find that at some point it just... ends. No street connection, just a sign saying this is as far as you go
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Joad The Wet Sprocket
@joadsprocket.bsky.social
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ending sidewalks are such a bummer. I live off a low-level stroad and the sidewalks end right where the houses do. if those danged sidewalks just also went along the stroad it would be huge for us.
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mmmm, paint chips
@shamr0cker.bsky.social
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We went train robber barons to automobile robber barons
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FatGuyOnABike🔒
@fgoaborg.bsky.social
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To paraphrase my sister, if you have sidewalks just anyone can walk through your neighborhood. You don't want that. She lives in the same neighborhood as Joe Horn.
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