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.

  • sanguine_artichoke
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    1 year ago

    I have had a car for most of my life and ended up living in a mid-size US city without one for a while. It was… enlightening. It was a somewhat walkable city. One problem was that the most interesting district was across this highway exchange from hell, with 5 different opportunities to get hit by a car crossing the streets, then you had to cross the main street to go beneath an underpass. Staying in the neighborhood, we had several convenience stores, liquor stores, weed shops, carnicerias, a Family Dollar, Walgreens, Asian groceries, a bunch of restaurants and a Costco within .5-1.2 miles. Still, it was a haul. I could take a dolly to costco and that was pretty simple, but still a lot of work. Walking to get groceries and carrying back 2-3 big sacks a mile was a lot of work and took forever.

    More to the point of the post, using a bus or trying to take the light rail didn’t help much. Bus stops were .5 miles from the house, so I’d still have to carry everything back that far. The light rail was on the other side of the hell intersection over a mile from the house.