Is there naming conventions for various side walks. Like this here appears to just be an island surrounded by road, so no pedestrian ever would be on it outside of driving their car to it. The actual side walks leading to the buildings usually run down to the main streets.
For an example I highlighted a terrible for pedestrian building near me, where purple is where you would normally have walking paths, and yellow is where someone would put a “sidewalk” like the one in the original post.
If you look close, I don’t think there are any sidewalks anywhere. Pain in the arse. Its about 5 miles to the nearest grocery store for me, think the nearest side walk starts around 4 miles in. Sucks, but it was a small town that blew up I guess but they never invested in decent infrastructure.
I think the intent with this centered walkway is to provide somewhere that people can push their cart to their trunk without being in a car lane of the lot. This works best if they back into the spot. Some people back into a more normal set of spots then have less space at their trunk if someone pulls in behind them. These can be especially useful near stores that sell larger items as the customers would need more space to load.
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Is there naming conventions for various side walks. Like this here appears to just be an island surrounded by road, so no pedestrian ever would be on it outside of driving their car to it. The actual side walks leading to the buildings usually run down to the main streets.
For an example I highlighted a terrible for pedestrian building near me, where purple is where you would normally have walking paths, and yellow is where someone would put a “sidewalk” like the one in the original post.
Transportation engineer-splained
If you look close, I don’t think there are any sidewalks anywhere. Pain in the arse. Its about 5 miles to the nearest grocery store for me, think the nearest side walk starts around 4 miles in. Sucks, but it was a small town that blew up I guess but they never invested in decent infrastructure.
If you have to walk regularly you should write to your local politicians and city council that your needs are not being met safely.
I think the intent with this centered walkway is to provide somewhere that people can push their cart to their trunk without being in a car lane of the lot. This works best if they back into the spot. Some people back into a more normal set of spots then have less space at their trunk if someone pulls in behind them. These can be especially useful near stores that sell larger items as the customers would need more space to load.