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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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