So you patiently wait for your little white man signal, and as soon as it finally comes on (after 2 full cycles of the traffic lights) you start crossing only to get honked at by some lady who wants to turn right on her red light...
Well then, that lady needs to wait while I continue to cross with a limp that magically return at the moment she honked her horn.
And if you're lucky, you get more than 5 seconds to cross that 4 lane intersection!
I've had to walk a few elderly people across a few intersections because they'd be 1/4 the way through before the "walk" quickly turned into "get off the road before you die!".
I lived on an intersection like this for a while and I felt like I was going to fucking die every time I had to cross.
I watched this youtube a while back about how bad our streets are designed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
"We even put some nice areas of brown, patchy grass! And look, there's even a shrub!"
In the past we used to design our cities to be walkable because there was mo other sensible way. Now we build for cars and everything at the human level ends up far away separated by endless parking lots.
What's funny is a certain type of engineer will look at this and be like hnnnng oh baby look at that
Simcity/Cities Skyline players too.
Can appreciate the sex appeal of infrastructure while also recognizing its stupid and shouldnt exist outside of a video game :D
Wasn't SimCity the game series that basically cheated and massively scaled down streets and parking spots because they realize exactly no one would like this even remotely realistic?
@Ooops @Dubious_Fart CitySkylines has 'pocket cars'. Pedestrians store cars in their pockets for use when they want it.
Personally, I even think it's kinda stupid for Skylines to force me to build along a road. I grew up with SimCity; roads helped, but were not actually required because it did actually simulate people walking to a degree.
Not only that but society has become more lazy over the years, and it got worse thanks to the pandemic
My reaction to this was "but there's obviously going to be a footbridge", followed by "wait, really?"
I guess that second thought just about sums up North American infrastructure
"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
"Yeah, but that's too expensive, I like mine better. What's wrong with it?"
gestures wildly at photo THE WHOLE THING
This looks like in cities skyline when I forgot to put in a pedestrian walkway and I can’t really change the streetlayout anymore
Yeah, that place looks like a perfect excuse to build an over-engineered, spagetti-shaped pedestrian walkway.
Looking at Maps, it's a 7 hour walk to my office. Or, two hour bike ride. Or, take 3 busses and a ride share in 2 hours. Or, a 30 minute drive in a car.
That, also because its 110 god damn degrees outside and I dont want to die of heatstroke before i reach the end of the street
"Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking. It's like being a pedestrian, only rarer." - Clarisse McClellan
