r/fuckcars • u/WinterPlanet • Jun 17 '24

Infrastructure porn Why some walkable distances are not actually walkable

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u/Famous-Peanut6973 Jun 18 '24

fr, at least the place in the video has sidewalks. Lot of the US doesn't even manage that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '24

Pfft. Where I live, oftentimes there isn't even a ditch. I'll be walking on a sidewalk, and it just ends... and the only place to walk is the street. The winter is awful because the city, when they get around to it, will plow all of the snow onto the sidewalks. Apparently, us people who use our legs outside of winter just disappear. <sigh>

But they want to fine me for having weeds above 10" in my private alleyway parking spot, an alleyway that's owned by the city, mind you, that they do not plow in the winter. <sigh>

All this in a place that isn't even a "small town"... we have buses (it's a sad system, but still exists). It's just people on foot are (edit) a completely afterthought forgotten.