Re: Lost your home? Car? Everything? Thank a bicyclist and the California road diet.

On 1/14/2025 12:33 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:

Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> writes:
 

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 1/11/2025 4:12 AM, wayne wrote:

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Sweden gets positive marks for passenger rail and pedestrian or bike
safety.  Sweden has trains that serve popular busy areas.  Japan also
plans well in this way.
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Sweden smartly engineers pedestrians and cyclists out of contention with
motor vehicles for the most part.  Instead of traffic impeding
crosswalks, they have paths that cross under or over roads that are wide
enough for walkers and cyclists.  In the case of extremely wide roads or
train tracks, they have bridges, or bridges with elevators that go up
30-40 feet to an enclosed walkway over the objects.  They are heated in
the winter time too.

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???
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We were in Stockholm around 2010. I saw none of that. I'm also not
seeing that now in Google Street View.
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Got examples?
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Indeed it’s what London and other cities did in the 50’s with the pedways
ie walkways in the sky, it failed totally! Though are some left being used,
but most are urban curiosities. You can see some buildings from the
Embankment with the disconnected walkway tunnel though the building, no
longer accessible.
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Unsurprisingly much like the big tower blocks with also walkways people
didn’t behave as the planners expected/hoped.

 There are some of those in the US as well.  Here's a story on the
history of an ordinarily mysterious one, which I found entertaining:
 https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge
 

Thanks.  I read that between coats of paint and found it quite interesting, having watched the Interstate being built when I was young. Amazing diligence and a surprising outcome!
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