Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (2017)

Re:Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure mai... by scrose on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:07PM (#24682257)

I’m not sure where you are, but I can’t imagine anywhere where sidewalks don’t make sense. Upkeep is orders of magnitudes cheaper than maintaining a street, and provides incentives for people to leave their cars behind, especially for shorter trips, further reducing wear and tear on roads.

Keeping roads in shape for multi-ton vehicles to barrel down them is expensive. Keeping them in shape for humans, not so much.

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Re:Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure mai... by jfim on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:26PM (#24682376)

There's no reason to have sidewalks in suburbs or rural areas where anything you'd reasonably want to walk to is miles away.

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Re:Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure mai... by scrose on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:53PM (#24682903)

The thought process of your post forms a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Of course if you build with only a single mode of transport in mind, the majority of people will opt towards that mode of transportation. Unfortunately, many suburbs and small cities have made that mistake and also chose the most expensive mode, hence the article.

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Re:Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure mai... by smallnamespace on Sunday October 04, 2020 @06:06PM (#24682635)

As a suburban kid I walked a few miles a day to school and back and so did a good number of classmates.

It would have been far more dangerous without sidewalks.

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