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This is one of the most infuriating parts about the road layout where I live now. Everything is built as small residential cul-de-sacs without any access excep
by lutorm 7y ago
This is one of the most infuriating parts about the road layout where I live now.
Everything is built as small residential cul-de-sacs without any access except the entry from the main street. I can look at my neighbor's house 100ft away but there's no way to get there, even as a pedestrian, except walking out on the busy main street (with no sidewalks), walking half a mile down the road, and then walking half a mile back up their residential street.
It's like they actively try to discourage any mode of transportation except driving.
- xyzzyz 7y agoThe point of cul de sacs is to discourage people who do not live there from passing through. They are there to discourage all driving except your driving.
- Scarblac 7y agoSo why not a sidewalk connecting them?
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoBecause towns don't insist on it, it costs money and it's less land that's free to develop.
- xyzzyz 7y agoI wouldn't mind that, but with the decay of community life in America, people aren't all that interested in easy access to their neighbors.
- lutorm 7y agoExactly, they think transportation==driving. That's the problem.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThat used to be my pet hate on trips to the US - it definitely felt like active discouragement - finding the pavement would just stop with no warning, or being able to see and almost touch the place I wanted to get to next block or lot, but getting there was a major hike. All that lovely California sun, why on earth would I want to be in the rental car for only a mile or two? :) Cul-de-sacs are fairly popular in current UK estate designs, but usually - not always - include footpaths to link the obvious places. Mostly goes with shopping areas too - if you have walked, you can usually shortcut most of the road routing. That said, UK cycle friendly is mostly tokenism - a few efforts, a few half hearted painted lanes, but it's inconsistent. Pedestrian friendliness is usually pretty good.