Deliberate in the sense that someone built a hotel on land that was cheap for reason?
Comment on outlawing pedestrians
knightly@pawb.social 1 day agoHoly Shit, making it from the nearest hotel across the canal turns a 1-mile walk into a 6-mile hike =U
That has to be deliberate, there’s no other excuse for it.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 day ago
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 day 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.
mcv@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 1 day 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
mcv@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That sounds a lot more reasonable. And that’s a standalone bridge. If you want to be stingy, you could also just have a walkway on the side of the highway bridge. Make sure you’ve got a solid wall between the cars ajd pedestrians, of course.
withabeard@feddit.uk 1 day ago
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