Ask for a bike lane and hopefully you can get multi-use gutters
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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if lines can keep out sea bears, obviously they can keep out these pesky pedestrians from getting in front of my SUV!
It's the Sea Rhinos you should be more concerned about.
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Yo that's unreal
Awesome, now bikers can roll over stickman nuts every day to work and pretend it's the boss.
Fake or not in the US? It definitely looks like standard USA fare, but this is not a pedestrian symbol I've ever seen
Not in the US, but Canada!
Fake, but not terribly far from reality in some areas.
Anywhere upper middle class enough to have lawns like that will have proper sidewalks. But in poor neighborhoods, sometimes local government just doesn't bother spending money to make sidewalks at all. But they also don't bother to paint any lines in the road. It's just road - no sidewalks, no bike lanes, no whatever these are. Just roads.
It’s not fake, and weirdly enough it’s in a rich neighbourhood (or at least u need to be rich to be able to buy a house here)
It is exactly reality on some roads in my area. My town is growing and decently high income for the area, but some of the very first neighborhoods have drainage ditches along the roads rather than proper storm drains. So they are smaller, less expensive houses, but they are in the center of town with good access to everything.
So that leads to lots of sidewalks being built, trying to make things more connected and walkable, but certain roads have this exact “we painted a line and a walk symbol” sidewalk. The walk symbol looks correct though, not the weird one in the op.
This is blasphemy. What should we call walking on the side of the road in some sort of designated zone?
"Asking to get hit by a car"
Only in America
And Canada. Half the residential streets in my city don't have sidewalks, the rich folks get walking paths behind their houses so they don't have to mingle with the poors walking out in the street
I saw a similar thing on the Amalfi coast in Italy, though the roads are so damn narrow there idk how else it could possibly work.
It is a joke...