alt Hacker NewsStreetview almost any US suburb. There often is not a way to safely cross a 60ft+ wide road with a 40mph speed limit (which means large vehicles with distracted drivers are driving 50mph+.
Almost all businesses are located on these wide roads, and neighborhoods basically become islands for the kids. It’s especially bad in the winter, because it gets dark quicker, and crossing that 60ft+ wide 40mph+ road gets dicey even as an adult.
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nrhrjrjrjtntbt • last Thursday at 9:47 PM
I took you up on the challenge. Something near SF since HN's spiritual home, and not too out in the sticks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CzuphnMwvwmoo8yLA
Yeah that looks terrible. That was pretty much random first place I looked.
I wish we had a neighborhood island. The road we live on is a quarter mile long (so, short) with few houses. It ends in a road where cars go 40+ mph. That road is awful - not only are there no sidewalks, but it twists and turns, and the road is cut into a hill with steep unwalkable slopes on either side. At any point a car could be coming downhill around the bend and your options as a pedestrian are to hope they see you or to just get run over.