Nashville, TN has a population of over 600,000 people, but, outside the
central core of the city, less than half the streets have sidewalks. The
primary reason for this is that most of the city's growth has been in the
last 50 years, and the planners assumed that everyone would be traveling by
car, not by public transportation or on foot.
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drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
On November 24, 2015 9:57:42 AM Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:24 AM, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote:
Jaywalking will get you a bored policeman giving you a ticket in Tokyo.
They pride themselves in people who follow the rules and wait for
crosswalks and such.
Seattle is one of the few cities in the US that actively hands out
jaywalking tickets. We warn all newcomers not to jaywalk. Moving from
Chicago ment having to force myself not to jaywalk. In Chicago, even if
there was a cop directing traffic everyone crossed when and where they
wanted. Traffic be dammed.
However the sidewalk "grid" disappears very quickly (most unclassified and
residential streets have no sidewalks), but there are "green" zones on the
sides of some narrow roads (like narrow residential roads and back alleys
of Tokyo) where the shoulder of the road is expected to be used for
pedestrian access (not a full sidewalk).
This makes mapping the sidewalks quite easy in Japan - they disappear
quite quickly once you leave secondary roads. For Places where they they go
on and on and on - like huge planned housing communities in California -
it's a good question!
The city in question is Seattle. Most of Seattle's residential streets have
sidewalks as do most large cities in the US.
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