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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by addicted on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:50PM (#10775701)
I've been ticketed in Atlanta for walking on a patch of grass by a road because that section of the road did not have a sidewalk. (The grass was well away from the road so there was no danger of distracting cars or anything and this was public property).

The only bus that actually crossed that section of the road to get to my internship location stopped running at 8am, so the days I had classes in the morning and was working in the afternoon I had to travel 1 1/2 hrs by public transport and then walk 35 mins to reach work, as opposed to a 1 HR 15 min public transport ride (also a 20 min drive by car).

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by SilasX on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:04PM (#10778836)
Not quite the same, but I used to live in an apartment catty-corner from my university's property. It was short enough of a distance to walk home, and yet there were stretches of it without sidewalks, and people would assume you're lost if you walked along it and offer you a ride out of sympathy.
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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by blahedo on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:53AM (#10776601)
> I've been ticketed in Atlanta for walking on a patch of grass by a road because that section of the road did not have a sidewalk.

What were you even supposed to do in that case?

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by jschwartzi on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:29AM (#10778251)
Detour to the nearest car lot and buy a car.
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