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Old 03-05-2023, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
I have to walk in the street in my neighborhood to get to the closest sidewalk - no difference there. It looks like Reagan Rd has a posted 20mph speed limit, I'm not sure there is a posted speed limit in my neighborhood.

As someone else asked, has there been a rash of pedestrians hit recently?

I don't want a sidewalk in front of my house, it would take up space, look ugly, and is completely unnecessary for the volume and speed of traffic. If we don't have sidewalks on both sides of every road then there must be something to determine where they are needed. Perhaps the decision was to put a sidewalk or path along any road with a speed limit greater than 20mph. That seems reasonable to me and could explain why there is no sidewalk on Shale Trail Loop or Reagan Rd.
This is specific to an intersection at a MMP. When I look at other similar intersections, they have a sidewalk on one side to the MMP.
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