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Considering that nearly all get an F, it seems to me that Mexico gets a D. Speed humps are widely used to give pedestrians a fighting chance to get across a busy street, Cancun stands out in my mind for that. Car traffic on city streets is slow and attentive. Unobstructed sidewalks are prevalent alongside city streets.
Above-mentiomed Japan also, but I haven't seen much of it.
Somaliland was lovely, almost no cars at all, walk without giving cars a thought. Addis Ababa is a nightmare. Very few cars, restricted to few roads, but other streets are ankle-crushing cobblestone.
well it's a bit more complicated than that. Like I said, Italy isn't great for pedestrians in general.
Indeed, based on the OP's criteria Australia could actually be considered quite pedestrian friendly. In that there are speed humps, traffic islands, chicanes and pedestrian crossings and all kinds of other traffic calming structures designed to slow cars down in residential streets, which almost universally also have footpaths.
The general rule of thumb is that a motorist must give way to pedistrians, even if that pedistrian happens to be jay walking.
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Indeed, based on the OP's criteria Australia could actually be considered quite pedestrian friendly. In that there are speed humps, traffic islands, chicanes and pedestrian crossings and all kinds of other traffic calming structures designed to slow cars down in residential streets, which almost universally also have footpaths.
The general rule of thumb is that a motorist must give way to pedistrians, even if that pedistrian happens to be jay walking.
well, over here chicanes, traffic islands, speed humps are not very common at all. Also pedestrian crossings should be places where cars slow down, but usually they don't, and sometimes as a pedestrian you can wait for a couple of minutes until you can cross. I've already been insulted and threatened by a car driver because i had decided to cross while he was arriving at about 60-70 km/h (in my neighborhood which is a residential area). Sometimes a car stops to let people cross the street and another car decides to go anyway so it is very dangerous. Not to mention people being hit and killed on the sidewalk (several last year in my city....)
Most of the major European and East Asian cities are very pedestrian friendly. If Americans increased the walkability of their southern cities then the national obesity rate would drop dramatically!
More of Bogota's vast pedestrian and cycle infrastructure.
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