What a ridiculous way to live. Imagine not having a pavement along a road people might need to travel along.
Like sure, here there’s no pavements along roads once you get outside of towns and cities to the big connecting roads, the kind nobody would want to walk down anyway, motorways, dual carriageways, and of course small country roads and the like.
But if you physically can’t get from A to B in a town without walking along an unsafe verge? The fuck is your local government doing and why haven’t they been sacked yet?
To be fair, I also live somewhere that Americans hate from what I’ve heard, the dreaded evil 15 minute neighbourhood. Everything I need, more or less, is within a short walk. That’s just how things are built in the UK, my whole area was built in the post-war 50s construction boom, so it’s hardly new.
Within 15 minutes I can walk to a newsagents, off licence, flower shop, takeaway, opticians, doctors surgery, dentists, schools, butchers, bakery, supermarkets, bicycle repair shop, barbershops and salons, cafes, etc etc. Often there’s more than one of a thing available.
There’s much more within easy reach, because there are many buses and rail trams running in various directions to get to different places in the city and in the towns surrounding the city, all stops within a 15 minute walk of my house. They run frequently and are very affordable to use.
Anyway, yeah, while I don’t expect everywhere to put such a big focus on ensuring pedestrians can live their lives without cars, I expect them to at least have PATHS, for fecks sake.
…how do their children walk to school if there’s no bloody paths? Come on. Local government should be run out of office for endangering the kids like that, nevermind everyone else. I mean… how do wheelchair users etc get around? Christ.
how do their children walk to school if there’s no bloody paths? Come on.
They don’t. There is a reason why kids are so desperate to get a driver’s license, as before they do they are effectively trapped in their house if they are unlucky enough to live away from transit (Or even if they are they are still somewhat trapped). Before then they are driven to school and to activities. That is where the stereotype of the “Soccer mom” comes from.
Local government should be run out of office for endangering the kids like that, nevermind everyone else.
There is a perception that walking is inherently dangerous and for the poor, so people would get run out of office for trying to fix things. In Canada most cities have sidewalks to most places, but not to wealthier neighbourhoods.
I mean… how do wheelchair users etc get around? Christ.
Most of the bigger busses here can ‘kneel’ to let people on if need be, and if they live far from transit then they can schedule special busses to pick them up. The trains are also very good on accessibility. All of this is in a city with fairly well funded transit, in most cities and towns they are completely dependent on others to drive them around.
What a ridiculous way to live. Imagine not having a pavement along a road people might need to travel along.
Like sure, here there’s no pavements along roads once you get outside of towns and cities to the big connecting roads, the kind nobody would want to walk down anyway, motorways, dual carriageways, and of course small country roads and the like.
But if you physically can’t get from A to B in a town without walking along an unsafe verge? The fuck is your local government doing and why haven’t they been sacked yet?
To be fair, I also live somewhere that Americans hate from what I’ve heard, the dreaded evil 15 minute neighbourhood. Everything I need, more or less, is within a short walk. That’s just how things are built in the UK, my whole area was built in the post-war 50s construction boom, so it’s hardly new.
Within 15 minutes I can walk to a newsagents, off licence, flower shop, takeaway, opticians, doctors surgery, dentists, schools, butchers, bakery, supermarkets, bicycle repair shop, barbershops and salons, cafes, etc etc. Often there’s more than one of a thing available.
There’s much more within easy reach, because there are many buses and rail trams running in various directions to get to different places in the city and in the towns surrounding the city, all stops within a 15 minute walk of my house. They run frequently and are very affordable to use.
Anyway, yeah, while I don’t expect everywhere to put such a big focus on ensuring pedestrians can live their lives without cars, I expect them to at least have PATHS, for fecks sake.
…how do their children walk to school if there’s no bloody paths? Come on. Local government should be run out of office for endangering the kids like that, nevermind everyone else. I mean… how do wheelchair users etc get around? Christ.
They don’t. There is a reason why kids are so desperate to get a driver’s license, as before they do they are effectively trapped in their house if they are unlucky enough to live away from transit (Or even if they are they are still somewhat trapped). Before then they are driven to school and to activities. That is where the stereotype of the “Soccer mom” comes from.
There is a perception that walking is inherently dangerous and for the poor, so people would get run out of office for trying to fix things. In Canada most cities have sidewalks to most places, but not to wealthier neighbourhoods.
Most of the bigger busses here can ‘kneel’ to let people on if need be, and if they live far from transit then they can schedule special busses to pick them up. The trains are also very good on accessibility. All of this is in a city with fairly well funded transit, in most cities and towns they are completely dependent on others to drive them around.
https://www.calgarytransit.com/content/transit/en/home/calgary-transit-access.html