You’re looking at that right by the way. THREE freeway ramps!! I walked this last week and it was genuinely terrifying. The first freeway ramp when coming from the bus stop has NO pedestrian lights or signals.
Also those of you with good eyes will notice that there is NO SIDEWALK south of the bus stop. None. If you want to walk south on that particular street (which is 5 lanes btw) then you have to cross the freeway to get to the other side of the road.
Is it sad the first thing that came to mind is how nice it is you have a sidewalk all the way there. Most places around here you’re either on the road or in the bushes trying to walk places.
But the outside world is scary! That’s why I need a 3 ton metal box to shield me from it wherever I go
You’re kidding yourself. A lot of that metal box is plastic instead.
Wait, do you go over or under the freeway ramps? The map makes me think it’s under, but from your description it sounds like you’re going over?
Either way it looks like a very dangerous walk.You go over. You go under the overpasses, but the crosswalks will the on-ramp and the off-ramps are level
Oh woah. Looking at that map gives me culture shock! Is that USA? How common is such a situation in your area?
This kind of thing depends a lot on the part of the US and the time the development was built.
Stuff built to serve suburban communities, built since 1960, and particularly in the “sun belt” are way more likely to be built with the assumption everyone will drive and thus walkability is an after thought.
It’s changing but a lot of new development in places like Florida, Arizona and Texas are still being built like this.
