Comment on outlawing pedestrians

hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• susi7802@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like bad planning.

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• mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, why is there no pedestrian bridge?

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  • knightly@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Holy Shit, making it from the nearest hotel across the canal turns a 1-mile walk into a 6-mile hike =U

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    That has to be deliberate, there’s no other excuse for it.

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    • withabeard@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      American dream

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    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Deliberate in the sense that someone built a hotel on land that was cheap for reason?

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      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How much extra do you think it would have cost to add an 6’ walkway to the bridge when it was built, merely as a future-proofing mechanism? When your first thought is, “No one would ever want to walk from one side to the other instead of using some kind of transportation,” these are the kind of results you get.

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      • mcv@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.

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      • Tuuktuuk@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you think that the city should engage a – civil engineering project to build a pedestrian bridge over a navigable canal?

        Uhmm? Yes? Have you somehow missed that there’s a stadium on the other side of the canal? There are a lot of things in the southwest corner of the map, not just one hotel. I do not believe there’s any other country on this planet where this is even a question. That bridge would absolutely get built. Building the stadium cost a big sum of money. A simple pedestrian bridge costs something like 50 000 $, maybe 200 000 $ if you want a fancy one. How would it not be possible for the stadium to pay that? It’s an increase of about one percent to the project’s expenses.

        And if they somehow forgot to include the necessary traffic connections in requirements for giving the permission to build the stadium, then I can assure you that the state is able to pay for a hundred grand for simple infrastructure.

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  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Keeps the poors out. — Cave Johnson, probably

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  • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    NJ DOT controls Rt 3 that goes over the bridge. You can recommend it to them.

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The canal was there before the hotel, so that’s probably a question for whoever built a hotel in a place that doesn’t make any sense.

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  • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the reason I can’t simply walk to the nearby Denny’s if I wanted to; it’s on the otherside of 99 and there are no pedestrian crossings for MILES over it.

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• Woht24@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is literal insanity

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• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lmao fucking americans… “The government won’t let me walk on the highway, that’s the real tyranny!”

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also america: driving takes one mile, walking takes 6 miles to get to the same place.

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• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I see some water there. Backpack inflatable kayak?

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  • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its not walking, so fine in the eyes of the law i guess?

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• Tuuktuuk@nord.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When will the pedestrian bridge be ready?

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