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Originally Posted by sunnyatlast
They might be called "multi-modal" but the resulting reality is that they are golf cart streets.
We never walked in streets with vehicles going 20 mph before we got here, and here, I don't walk in vehicular traffic streets, either.
After walking facing traffic on multimodal paths and seeing how many times 2 oncoming carts meet with no space to go out and around a pedestrian, I walk on sidewalks and not in streets.
Not everything allowed is safe. Also, the pedestrians who walk with their back to oncoming traffic are inviting disaster for themselves and drivers.
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I agree. There are a bunch of "rules" and "should do's" but I am not going to be the injured/dead person that had the right of way.