If we are being honest, are sidewalks sometimes a waste of money?

Yeah, bikes on the sidewalk, walking in the street.

Some places it makes sense, some places it doesn’t. Having sidewalks encourages more pedestrian friendly development going in. People need to get out of their frickin cars more.

My neighborhood has sidewalks and nobody uses them everyone walks and runs in the street even after dark.

Plus, concrete kicks back way harder than asphalt.

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You can’t have people walking in the street’ etc. There aren’t people walking anywhere in some of these places. Or at most, what, 1 person every 6 months or so?

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In the past year or two Ive noticed a lot of walkers and cyclists in my little town. Most clearly doing it out of necessity. Owning some kind of motorized transport is out of reach of the bottom rung now. Used to, everybody could afford some kind of hoopty. Not anymore. I imagine some of them are afoot due to a DWI. Some of them probably spend their money on drugs. Others are just po'.

The sidewalks in my neighborhood get a ton of use. It blows my mind that so many neighborhoods don't have them.

Tax money pays for sidewalks, so pedestrians and bicyclists can be safe from street traffic. And if sidewalks were used in that way I’d be a supporter of that relatively small expense.

But in three different places I’ve lived, I’ve seen bicyclists using the street instead of the sidewalk and yelling at the traffic passing them.

I live in NYC so I really can’t comment. People bitch beCause some of the sidewalks aren’t wide enough

Running on concrete is terrible for your knees