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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] socphoenix@lemmy.world 90 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

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 20 points 2 weeks ago

Its also Americans driving on those roads.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They should have been required to build pedestrian bridges and paths. If we didn’t line in a shithole capitalist hellhole.

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[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 75 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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. https://maps.app.goo.gl/5nK4bkNg9fHkWunn7

There isn't a pedestrian bridge over the canal, that's why you gotta get a ride.

[–] susi7802@sopuli.xyz 49 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like bad planning.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

So, why is there no pedestrian bridge?

[–] knightly@pawb.social 52 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] withabeard@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago

American dream

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

Deliberate in the sense that someone built a hotel on land that was cheap for reason?

Do you think that the city should engage a billion dollar civil engineering project to build a pedestrian bridge over a navigable canal so that it can serve whoever was dumb enough to build a hotel here?

To be clear, there are like a hundred hotels that you CAN walk to this stadium from, just not this one.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 14 points 2 weeks 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 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago

Keeps the poors out. — Cave Johnson, probably

NJ DOT controls Rt 3 that goes over the bridge. You can recommend it to them.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's the reason I can't simply walk to the nearby Denny's if I wanted to even tho it's like 3 blocks away; it's on the otherside of highway 99 and there are no pedestrian crossings for MILES over it.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 9 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

My FIL randomly got me an e-bike that I can't use for that exact reason. There's no way for me to get anywhere from my house without having to cross an extremely busy highway. I could drive the bike to places, but that defeats the purpose.

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

lmao fucking americans... "The government won't let me walk on the highway, that's the real tyranny!" What a confused bunch.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Also america: driving takes one mile, walking takes 6 miles to get to the same place.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see some water there. Backpack inflatable kayak?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Its not walking, so fine in the eyes of the law i guess?

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[–] TheLastRadiant@lemmy.today 32 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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

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[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago

Those who make peaceful walking impossible make violent jaywalking enevitable

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

Seems like they should have a shuttle service

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

North Jersey is a wild sprawl of highways. It’s a shame it’s not more pedestrian friendly.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.)

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[–] FluxUniversity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

So developed, much freedom

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

yea it’s like three highways over there - you’d think they’d build a bridge

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

The freedom of cars.

[–] GioGioMioGio@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

I found the exact hotel on google maps and the distance to the stadium seems to be only 1km.

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