Comment on outlawing pedestrians

• knightly@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    American dream

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • general_kitten@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        found some figures about cost of bridge building and apparently if one were to construct a completely new pedestrian overpass/bridge over that canal would be on the ballpark of about 2-10 million dollars

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    • Tuuktuuk@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, there are plenty of countries on earth that don’t pave over their rivers so that you can build a business wherever you want without obstruction. What a stupid fucking notion.

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      • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Here’s the thing, that bridge would only serve tourists customers of the hotel, not the tax payers of NJ who would be paying for it. So it’s on the hotel here to advocate for their customers and either work with NJDOT for the bridge or run a shuttle. But they put up the sign instead because their only care about their bare minimum liability, not making things safe or convenient.

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• baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Keeps the poors out. — Cave Johnson, probably

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• hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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