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

I wouldn't live in a neighborhood without sidewalks. Very trashy.

It is illegal to ride a bike on a regular sidewalk but the mouth breathers on this site always seem to forget this.

Useful or not, sidewalks have to be installed for liability reasons......if there were sidewalks, the first dumbass to get hit by a car would be awarded millions by a jury of his "peers" saying the city was negligent for having no place to walk.

I like sidewalks , but they need to be unobstructed. In my subdivision, cars parked in the drive way block a lot of them. You have to exit the sidewalk , walk into the street around the cars , and back onto the sidewalk again.

Neighborhoods without sidewalks are trashy.

My street has intermittent sidewalks. My sidewalk does not connect to either neighbor's house-they don't have them. There might be three in a row as the longest stretch.

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I run through neighborhoods and I would use the sidewalks if I didn't care if I twisted my ankles every time out.

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Yup same here, but to be honest in Nola the street surface normally isn't any better than the sidewalk surface

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People will still walk and ride bikes in the middle of the street and act like you're the a-hole for driving a car there

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People on bikes can legally "take the lane" in Louisiana. Often times, it's safer -- it makes you more visible to traffic coming up behind you, and it takes you out of the "door zone" of cars parallel parked on the street.

I bike quite a bit around Mid-city, Lakeview, and the Lakefront, and I will say most cars are respectful and maintain safe distances, but every once in a while, you get that one a-hole who thinks it's cool to pass you with just inches of clearance and that could mean serious injury to the biker who is following the law.

I was nearly clipped a few weeks ago in the right lane of Lakeshore drive when the car passing me had the entire left lane to use, but insisted on barely clearing me then cutting back right in front of me.

Bikers aren't perfect, but motorists aren't either, and being both a biker and motorist, I will tell you most bikers are usually paying much more attention to what's going on than most motorists.

bullshite. Sidewalks are always a good option

Exactly. They're called sidewalks, not siderides