• lntl@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Fake or not in the US? It definitely looks like standard USA fare, but this is not a pedestrian symbol I’ve ever seen

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        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)

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        11 months ago

        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.