How the hell can a person go to places here?

[keeshonder]

There is a long accepted technique for walking along roads without sidewalks. You walk on the side that faces traffic. I learned that a long time ago when I was about 5. Have been successfully walking along roads without sidewalks for decades.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by cityrover

why would you walk on a vehicle road? having no sidewalks is no excuse to jaywalk so lay off labelling people driving cars on roads made for cars.

Many cities and their associated metro areas provide sidewalks and bike trails (and sometimes both) on one or both sides of major automobile thoroughfares to accommodate foot and bicycle traffic.

Cobb County is in the process of improving the walking and biking situation for many of its residents, thank goodness, and I personally hope the rest of the metro is doing something along similar lines.

[MCPatrick1970]

Originally Posted by cityrover

why would you walk on a vehicle road? having no sidewalks is no excuse to jaywalk so lay off labelling people driving cars on roads made for cars.

So how are the kids supposed to get to and from the bus stops? Fly? My neighborhood (like many others here) lacks sidewalks so the kids have to walk in the streets or gutters. Granted, it wouldn't be so bad if people didn't drive 50 in a 30mph zone but that's another arguement.

[neil0311]

Yeah, one of the things I noticed upon my initial arrival from NYC to Atlanta in 1982 was the complete lack of sidewalks in many areas. I think it's much better now, although it still does boggle my mind why sidewalks aren't ubiquitous in all but rural areas. How do you spend millions on a road widening project and NOT put in sidewalks? That's just stupid and shortsighted.

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by neil0311

Yeah, one of the things I noticed upon my initial arrival from NYC to Atlanta in 1982 was the complete lack of sidewalks in many areas. I think it's much better now, although it still does boggle my mind why sidewalks aren't ubiquitous in all but rural areas. How do you spend millions on a road widening project and NOT put in sidewalks? That's just stupid and shortsighted.

It's the missing turn lanes in some places that blow my mind. It isn't a right of way issue in most cases from what I can tell, either. Just a different approach to building roads, I guess.

[fblumberg]

What an ignorant SOB!

[syracusa]

I just wanted to say that I am nearing the end of a decade spent in Atlanta / Atlanta area. It has been 10 years since I arrived here from Europe, and the effects of the initial shock over lack of sidewalks and lack of people in the streets, are still with me. I never got over it and I spent a decade B****-ing about it almost every other day :-)

We are now forced to move to the Boston (area) for husband's job and I've been told this particular issue should go away. Looking forward to facing a brand new set of issues: such as Real Estate costs that only lots of Prozac can render bearable and the virtually zero chance of establishing a career in academia, which I had managed to do just fine in the sidewalk-less Atlanta.

So the search for a worldly Paradise continues...