Submitted 1 day ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/7613489
The REASON it’s illegal and dangerous to walk from these hotels is there’s a damn whole canal between here and the stadium and the bridge is a limited-access highway. maps.app.goo.gl/5nK4bkNg9fHkWunn7
There isn’t a pedestrian bridge over the canal, that’s why you gotta get a ride.
Sounds like bad planning.
So, why is there no pedestrian bridge?
Holy 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.
Keeps the poors out. — Cave Johnson, probably
NJ DOT controls Rt 3 that goes over the bridge. You can recommend it to them.
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.
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.
That is literal insanity
lmao fucking americans… “The government won’t let me walk on the highway, that’s the real tyranny!”
Also america: driving takes one mile, walking takes 6 miles to get to the same place.
I see some water there. Backpack inflatable kayak?
Its not walking, so fine in the eyes of the law i guess?
I came down with the flu and 102° fever while on a work trip this week. I ubered to an urgent care and the pharmacy was just across the street, but the street being a typical 5-lane American road with no sidewalk on either side, and no pedestrian crossing in sight in either direction.
I had to play frogger in the traffic standing in an empty lane until the next one cleared to get across.
Just truly mind-blowing bad design
Obviously you should have taken another Uber!
Lol, US things 🤷
(Don’t hate! It really is a deeply US thing. We’re a very car Country as Germany but a thing like that would be totally alien to us.)
It definitely is a US thing, I can agree.
fuck that
Why would anyone want to go somewhere where its illegal to walk outside?
No, its not illegal to walk outside. You’re allowed to walk through public spaces.
Now I don’t know that stadium but based on the sign and the fact that this is the US I’m gonna assume that the only roads that go to the stadium are 4 or 6 lane highways and it’s outright dangerous to walk there
It’s a joy
I just looked it up on Google maps and yeah, that appears to be the case. All the nearby hotels have highways or a river between them and the stadium.
It is in fact illegal to walk along or across an interstate highway, for safety’s sake. In Germany, would you just casually stroll across the autobahn?
Seems like they should have a shuttle service
Standard American cities, aaahhh the beauty
I wish their was more infrastructure designed around walking, it makes me sad to see places that are so car oriented, it makes them ugly and unpleasant compared to city’s and country’s that prioritize walking and promotes a health lifestyle instead of driving and sitting in a car all day
I like walking when I’m not in a hurry and the weather is nice, but the weather usually isn’t nice in most parts of the country (the US West Coast is an exception to that). I’m looking at moving to a southern state now and the only reason I’m even considering it is that I would be living in a car centered area where I wouldn’t have to spend more than a couple of minutes a day outdoors during the summer. Compare that to NYC where I used to live: milder summers, but still hot, and I had no choice but to endure them because I couldn’t drive to most places I went to.
This comment is truly mindblowing to me!
I do welcome you sharing your perspective, but I also feel like we must be of different species, because I so profoundly cannot relate at all. Fascinating!
Best just seal yourself in a hermetic box and be done with it, then.
Your city was built by people who walked.
I’m glad my cities stadium is built on top of a train station. And that they close lanes of the surrounding roads for pedestrians to walk on when there’s a big match
Those who make peaceful walking impossible make violent jaywalking enevitable
North Jersey is a wild sprawl of highways. It’s a shame it’s not more pedestrian friendly.
I found the exact hotel on google maps and the distance to the stadium seems to be only 1km.
yea it’s like three highways over there - you’d think they’d build a bridge
The freedom of cars.
You can try walking through the swampland or over the hills of buried garbage with grass planted on top.
socphoenix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To be fair, the road design is literal highways all the way around it making it impossible to safely walk. It’s terrible design and super hazardous to pedestrians but there is a safety reason behind the rule.
Nomad@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Its also Americans driving on those roads.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
They should have been required to build pedestrian bridges and paths. If we didn’t line in a shithole capitalist hellhole.
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I mean, there’s a bridge right there. Hang a pedestrian walkway underneath. Plenty of bridges like that where it’s been added after the fact.
But we know, it’ll see roughly 12 people a year actually use it because they’re Americans.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
OP got the picture from either hexbear or X…
It was obviously going to miss the point.
It’s not a law that you can’t walk from a hotel to a stadium, it’s a law that you can’t jaywalk…
www.legalfix.com/statutes/…/section-39-4-34
Likely across a highway/interstate that drink people keep thinking they can cross.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The decision to build a stadium that is completely inaccessible without a vehicle, even if you are staying at a hotel next door, is the point.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
For at least a few decades, I’ve been hearing complaints about American city planning intentionally excluding people who choose to, or can do nothing but, walk. Making it mandatory to arrive via automobile, that’s what they’re complaining about.
The first I’d heard of this was a rich area in socal being completely inaccessible to the homeless because it was rimmed entirely by freeways. No way to leave or enter safely without a car and few groceries just outside. A local food desert. Or a food fort
With that said, half of MetLife’s exterior is walkable, according to some maps. A long walk around a freeway is part of it. I’m not a fan of an extra 10 minutes of walking with industrial scenery but it seems fine enough
mcv@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If there’s a clear need to cross, they should provide a way to cross. That’s how you prevent people improvising their own way.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, it’s not a lie. You literally cannot walk from where this sign is posted to MetLife stadium while obeying New Jersey traffic laws. And I don’t mean some ad hoc one either; I mean e.g. ones about not playing Frogger across 10 lanes of highway traffic.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s not necessarily a lie, it’s illegal to walk on highways almost everywhere.