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It would be chaos. You’d have some jackass walking in the middle of the street as slow as possible, meanwhile people who actually have some place to go are all
by briandear 9y ago
It would be chaos. You’d have some jackass walking in the middle of the street as slow as possible, meanwhile people who actually have some place to go are all sitting around waiting on some fool who wants to play hacky-sack in the street.
- ck425 9y agoThen you stop relying on moter transport and start using your legs in cities.
- closeparen 9y agoAnd when the nearest home you can afford is 15 miles away? Any realistic plan includes high quality public transit, with at least some of it at street level.
- ck425 9y agoOk, so you have a limited number of public transport only roads and add restrictions on crossing those. Or you just follow the UK system and have no restrictions other than fear pedestrians will get hit and you reach a natural equilibrium where drivers avoid certain areas.
- scatters 9y agoWhere do you live, so I can know never to visit it?
- TheCoelacanth 9y agoThat doesn't happen with sidewalks because the vast majority of people have at least a tiny bit of politeness and will make way for someone trying to get through. For the extremely rare people who wouldn't, I assume that the police would stop by and get the person to move out of the way, just as they would if people were intentionally obstructing a sidewalk.
- andrewaylett 9y agoGenerally no, because the roads you use to go places aren't designed like that. If you're facing a road designed as a shared space, you should probably be within a couple of hundred metres of one end or the other of your journey, maximum.