Why? It’s not a main thoroughfare or (trigger warning) stroad. You can just cross the street back and forth as much as you like without any safety risk. Why put down even more non-permeable material and decrease density and increase the city’s maintenance burden for no increase in utility or throughput?
People with mobility issues should be kept in mind. Some may say just walk/roll in the street, but drivers are quick to get angry when some thoughtless wheel chair is taking up almost HALF of a lane.
Yeeeeeaaaah, that is exactly the issue here, no one ever does that just so they can walk on the sidewalk.
Quick test:
if someone want to go from house (a) to house (b), which path do you think they will use?
Answer:
Because they’re normal people and they’re already walking, crossing the road just to cross it again at destination is sort of redundant and take way more effort and risk than it should be(because car, fast or slow, still a threat to people crossing road), and people following the designated path by the developer is pretty sociopathically law abiding.
non-permeable
Permeable sidewalk exists. Even then, a 4 or 5 feet wide sidewalk have less impact than the asphalt. If that’s a big issue for you, then the street should be narrowed. And even if you want to retain the size of the street, i still see a tons of permeable surface, a sidewalk will have minimal impact.
decrease density
Density of what?
increase the city’s maintenance burden for no increase in utility or throughput?
It doesn’t increase the throughput and utility because based on this picture, the whole environment outside of the house is build for car, not human. And based on this picture, i can be certain that car is hoarding most of the city’s maintenance fund anyway, because maintaining road cost significantly more than maintaining pedestrian infrastructure. The burden are mostly caused by car infrastructure, while the earning from designing the area this way isn’t even enough to cover the maintenance. If maintenance cost is of concern, maybe build something human-scale?
Why? It’s not a main thoroughfare or (trigger warning) stroad. You can just cross the street back and forth as much as you like without any safety risk. Why put down even more non-permeable material and decrease density and increase the city’s maintenance burden for no increase in utility or throughput?
People with mobility issues should be kept in mind. Some may say just walk/roll in the street, but drivers are quick to get angry when some thoughtless wheel chair is taking up almost HALF of a lane.
If they even see the wheel chair.
Yeeeeeaaaah, that is exactly the issue here, no one ever does that just so they can walk on the sidewalk.
Quick test:
if someone want to go from house (a) to house (b), which path do you think they will use?
Answer:
Because they’re normal people and they’re already walking, crossing the road just to cross it again at destination is sort of redundant and take way more effort and risk than it should be(because car, fast or slow, still a threat to people crossing road), and people following the designated path by the developer is pretty sociopathically law abiding.
Permeable sidewalk exists. Even then, a 4 or 5 feet wide sidewalk have less impact than the asphalt. If that’s a big issue for you, then the street should be narrowed. And even if you want to retain the size of the street, i still see a tons of permeable surface, a sidewalk will have minimal impact.
Density of what?
It doesn’t increase the throughput and utility because based on this picture, the whole environment outside of the house is build for car, not human. And based on this picture, i can be certain that car is hoarding most of the city’s maintenance fund anyway, because maintaining road cost significantly more than maintaining pedestrian infrastructure. The burden are mostly caused by car infrastructure, while the earning from designing the area this way isn’t even enough to cover the maintenance. If maintenance cost is of concern, maybe build something human-scale?