balsoft comments on Desire path for straight sidewalk

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Those sidewalks always amaze me at how claustrophobic they feel. You dedicate like 20 m of space to cars and can only spare like 1 m to actual human beings living there?

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[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah what's with the hatched lines artificially widening the road? Couldn't that be more pavement? It's not like it's even being used for cars.

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Large roads ussually have a shoulder for when vehicles break down and can be removed safely off the roadway. It would also allow additional cars when the turn lane backs up from rush hour/event congestion.

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[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

It just doesn't look like a particularly large road. We have shoulders on the motorway but that's usually 3 lanes either way.

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