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Thanks for this anecdote. It really made me realise I take a lot of infrastructure for pedestrians for granted here in the UK

• kwhitefoot 3y ago
  Not just the UK. The US really is an outlier. Pedestrian infrastructure is better almost everywhere else. Certainly in every country I have visited from Canada to China and a dozen others in between.
  • alephnerd 3y ago
    In my experience, Canada is similar. We couldn't afford a car when I was younger so we had to subsist on Translink and Skytrain, and those systems were roughly on par with Muni and VTA. Outside of the Vancouver core, pedestrian infrastructure was weak to nonexistent in suburbs like Richmond, Surrey, South Vancouver, etc or towns/cities like Nanaimo or Abbotsford. Calgary and Edmonton were worse.