05-15-2015, 04:50 PM
(05-15-2015, 03:55 PM)Coke6pk Wrote: IMO pedestrian bridges are a waste of money. The bridge over University Ave at UW is a great example of a needed bridge, that is rarely used. Then, since the kids cross the road anyway, the city has to add pedestrian crossing signals.
I was in high school once... I can remember how many times I walked out of my way for the "safe" crossing. [Or, how many times I saw kids crossing the train bridge to get to/from GCI when I lived in Cambridge].
Yeah, "subways" don't appear to be preferred unless it's extremely sketchy to actually cross the street (in which case there are probably other problems).
Beijing uses quite a few subways and pedestrian bridges when they have like 10 lanes of traffic. One thing that does happen is that you get a bunch of vendors in the subways.