Exactly my point. We have a lot of those where I live and they're always dirty, dingy and smell of piss. Plus, there are usually no ramps for bikes and those that exist are very steep and narrow. A classic is having a ramp on one side and then having to push your bike up the stairs on the other side.

People, especially women, are scared to walk there at night. Stuff like this is a holdover from the bad old days of car centric city planning. I mean, it's not like things are great now, but they definitely used to be worse.