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Why doesn't anyone want to fix one of America's scariest roads?

41 points · 62 comments · adrianhon

  1. joe_the_user · · focus · HN ↗
    There's an overpass from one side of a big-box zone to the other in my area (Brunswick road over highway 20, which is a freeway at that point). One side there's a sidewalk and on the other side there isn't. It is a classic example of what Strongtowns calls a "Stroad" and many people walk across (always the poor) on the side without sidewalks exposed to uncontrolled car entering and leaving the freeway and not expecting pedestrians. I don't know any statistics but friends of mine have been injured on it.

    It would be nice to fix all the things about roads. But the road in the article sounds like should be closed and the funds used to maintain it diverted elsewhere, perhaps to fix stroads.

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