The city’s transportation priorities are clear from its actions. While the streets and intersections are clear the pedestrians have to navigate icy sidewalks and giant piles of slush in the crosswalks. We can do better. #Urbanism#Michigan
The same rule applies here for residents shoveling their own sidewalks in residential areas. The photos I took were from downtown where the city handles cleanup. As you would expect, residential areas are even worse. I am still the only house on my street with a clear sidewalk.
Conscientious residents like you are rare!
And honestly, no home owner is asked to clear the snow on the car lanes: why should we clear snow on the sidewalks which also carries traffic? All it does is to make residents resist the building of sidewalks.
It takes a special kind of person to argue simultaneously they need speed bumps to stop people from speeding down their residential street, while the same traffic on the adjacent collector street would slow down if you put up a slower speed limit sign. #Urbanism#VisionZero
Today I sat at a bench by 4 way stop and counted cars that fully stopped. The criteria was only that the wheels stopped completely.
The totals: 23/147 (16%) cars came to a complete stop.
If you cut it down to only cars that stopped when there was no conflict, it goes down to 3/147 (2%)
I don’t want to hear how bikes shouldn’t get safe space because they don’t follow the rules. Neither do cars and our cities should be built to keep everyone safe.
@DrTCombs my city is looking to convert a closed down street from COVID into a permanent pedestrian area. They are currently soliciting feedback on some early designs. If you have the energy and time could you look through them and give me any feedback that I might be able to forward on to the city? I have some ideas but I am not an expert in this field and I would love to get input from someone with your expertise and experience coming from the standpoint of pedestrian safety.