How does a wheelchair, baby stroller, or walker fit down that? I guess it doesn't and the city doesn't care about those people
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It's time for street legal baby strollers. The market is ripe. Strap your little one up and send them off on their two-stroke engine powered adventure.
Why should we even be accommodating babies in our city? It not like they pay any taxes
No no no. The profit is in baby stroller insurance. The demand for baby safety is inelastic. Think of how much we can squeeze out of those young struggling couples
Oh believe me, they do. Ridiculous how being a new parent is the most difficult possible time, in terms of time, finances, works, career, life in general, your own relationship to eachother. and there's basically no state support of any kind. But the state wants and mandates babies
City. You think that's a city, it is a tiny North Yorkshire town. It's roads were built in the 5th century or something and were made to accommodate horse and cart. If this was some major city in the US you might have a bit more of a point.
That road is wide enough to fit 3 cars wide in its current state. The age of the roadway is irrelevant, they could have designated more space to pedestrians and still accommodate 2 lanes worth of car traffic.
It's an interestingly selective picture that. We can't even see the other side. Every single time I have ever seen a road like that with a tiny pavement on one side, it's always because there is a full sized one on the other.
This faux outrage is ridiculous, by all means call out crappy design when it's present, but don't take random pictures off street view out of context and arbitrarily get mad about them.
Its in Powys not Yorkshire.
Its a very small town, not a city. The other side pavement is a fair bit wider, but obviously cars take priority. You want to see a wagon try and take this junction, they should never have been coming through the town, but theyve recently built a by pass.
Edit; obviously cars shouldnt take priority. I should have made that clearer. You should see the other side of the junction….it can be a nightmare.
Sometimes in England there just isn't room for stuff. It's fairly likely every square inch of that town is spoken for, including the roads themselves. Not that their owned by anyone per-se but the boundaries of these public through ways have in some cases been defined for centuries. It might be illegal to not have a road of a certain description and purpose in this space
And yet it doesn't seem to matter when it comes to cars if an area is spoken for, centuries-old or not. 2000-year old roman road? Pave the fucker, paint lines, forget sidewalks.
I think it is reasonable to assume that there is not a centuries old designation to dedicate the majority of the space to cars. Its very likely they could dedicate the space exclussively to bicycles and pedestrians and still fit a centuries old rule.
From other comments it seems to be designed that way to accommodate a war memorial and possibly transports/lorries needed more room for the turn. There is also apparently better access on the other side.
If you wanna make the argument that there just isn't enough room for stuff, private vehicles taking up surface level real estate and often sit empty are a bigger target than sidewalks.
I mean more like rights of way and who has the right to do what with the space
That doesn’t look like 36 inches
City?? Clearly a very small town or a village. The main pavement is on the other side. It’s narrow here to accommodate both the main thoroughfare and the war memorial. I doubt the residents would care to demolish the historic buildings or their cenotaph to soothe the rage of the terminally online.
And there’s clearly a walker using the pavement in the image.
That road looks wide enough to fit 3 cars wide and it seems to be a one way street. They wouldn't have to sacrafice the war memorial or remove the historic buildings to provide more room for pedestrians.
Sorry i didn't recognize it as a town, it has more density than an average north american city would which is where I'm from.
By walker i meant someone using a mobility device, often used by seniors.
The war memorial is in the centre of the road. The photo only shows the bit of road between the memorial and the junction. There is only room for one car in each direction. It is not one-way. The narrow section of pavement runs only for the length of the pub, which is not set back from the street as far as the rest of its row. This photo shows the entirety of the narrow section of pavement.
It’s a warning how misleading internet posts can be without context.
This picture must be a very unique angle. The blue building looks farther back from the road than the clare evans building in the background across the street.
That building is irrelevant as that part of the street is on a completely different alignment. And also doesn’t accommodate the cenotaph.
This community can be a bit uncompromising to put it politely. Yes there is definitely an issue with over urbanisation, although this image is definitely not indicative of it, but if some in this community have their way there would be no cars at all, everyone would just walk everywhere and apparently that would not be a problem whatsoever or have any effect on the economy.
And drivers will happily navigate those streets at 40mph, not unusual that they're heading home after a couple pints at the pub.
Shameful
How very dare people a century ago not appreciate modern needs!
Typical double yellows no parking no wonder the high-street is struggling should be able to park right outside on the pavement. I pay my road tax! /s
Plenty? I dunno, looks like they could use one more lane
Eww
But then where would you put those big thicc double yellow lines
Up our bums, of course. They're already halfway there.
Those yellow lines are very strong though.
Off subject, but, if you dont live there, have you been around the Elan Valley? Its definitely one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Surprised there aren't cars parked across it.