Lol, US things π€·
(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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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.
So developed, much freedom
I found the exact hotel on google maps and the distance to the stadium seems to be only 1km.
Seems like they should have a shuttle service
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.
That is literal insanity
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.
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.
Ebikes aren't allowed on roads by me.
How fast would the bike have to go to ride on highways? You're not going to safely go 60, but 40 might be obtainable if you can buy another battery of the same type, wire it in series, and don't give it too much current.
You're definitely shortening the life of everything, but it's better than no use at all.
I'm 100% not going to go 40+mph on the highway on a bicycle. Luckily they're building a bypass, so in a year or two I'll be able to use it.
Big up for not deliberately biting the dust
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Sounds like bad planning.
So, why is there no pedestrian bridge?
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.
American dream
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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.
A billion dollars for a pedestrian bridge? That thing had better be made of gold, then.
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
That sounds a lot more reasonable. And that's a standalone bridge. If you want to be stingy, you could also just have a walkway on the side of the highway bridge. Make sure you've got a solid wall between the cars ajd pedestrians, of course.
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.
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.
Keeps the poors out. β Cave Johnson, probably
NJ DOT controls Rt 3 that goes over the bridge. You can recommend it to them.
lmao fucking americans... "The government won't let me walk on the highway, that's the real tyranny!" What a confused bunch.
Also america: driving takes one mile, walking takes 6 miles to get to the same place.
I see some water there. Backpack inflatable kayak?
Its not walking, so fine in the eyes of the law i guess?
yea itβs like three highways over there - youβd think theyβd build a bridge
To be fair, the road design is literal highways all the way around it making it impossible to safely walk. Itβs terrible design and super hazardous to pedestrians but there is a safety reason behind the rule.
They should have been required to build pedestrian bridges and paths. If we didnβt line in a shithole capitalist hellhole.
Its also Americans driving on those roads.
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The freedom of cars.
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
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 cityβs and countryβs that prioritize walking and promotes a health lifestyle instead of driving and sitting in a car all day
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Those who make peaceful walking impossible make violent jaywalking enevitable
North Jersey is a wild sprawl of highways. Itβs a shame itβs not more pedestrian friendly.
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