NewNewark OP t1_jebvcta wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:47 PM

Reply to comment by GhostOfRobertTreat in This city detests people who aren't in a car by NewNewark

Not providing a safe walkway can lead to someone getting killed. The area has heavy pedestrian traffic and "temporary" can mean anything from 1 week to 5 years in this city. And it shouldnt be allowed for more than a few hours for a true emergency repair.

Go spend an hour in NYC and youll find every single construction site has a pedestrian walkway.

Example:
https://goo.gl/maps/9CQxh7ib5tFRyvUT7
https://goo.gl/maps/BxDe6TkonMb9PacP6

GhostOfRobertTreat t1_jebw0pm wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:52 PM

If someone turns the corner on Halsey and doesn’t this ahead and cross to the north side of Raymond in order to get to Broad, then they’re an idiot. It’s not the block is impassable. Just cross the street at the corner.

NewNewark OP t1_jebwnio wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:56 PM

You're a piece of shit if you think blind people are idiots. Fuck off.

GhostOfRobertTreat t1_jebx4mz wrote on March 30, 2023 at 9:59 PM

So that is a good point that I hadn’t considered. Apologies. Obviously I did not mean that blind people are idiots.

What is the general practice in that case for when it’s not considered a good idea to remove a lane of traffic to accommodate? In some places you narrow a lane but this would be taking a two lane thoroughfare down to one and probably cause other issues.

NewNewark OP t1_jebz05w wrote on March 30, 2023 at 10:12 PM

So you acknowledge that the choice was made between maintaining a car lane or providing a safe and accessible path for pedestrians. In other words, the title of this thread.

A travel lane, by the way, that is almost always filled with parked cars with their hazards on, making it not much of a lane at all.

If extremely crowded Manhattan can find the space to always provide a walkway, than so can Newark.

Regardless, the burden of how the accommodation is provided should fall on the construction people.

Heres another example in NYC with two simultaneous projects

One side of the street they build an in-road walkway
https://goo.gl/maps/iqJRCwpifbBUwLFY9

So presumably the folks across the street who started their construction later had to create a pedestrian tunnel since they couldnt use another lane

https://goo.gl/maps/EzHQQ62uBuD8obB76
https://goo.gl/maps/EAA5Pzp6g2NbRaAx5

infomanus t1_jecfnru wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:12 AM

Please the city bike lanes and bus lanes are filed with Amazon trucks offloading and sorting.

Designated lanes mean squat