Driving between them takes 5 minutes in a straight line. Safely walking between them, however, is a six-hour diversion through four unrelated towns, as opposed to the 30 or so minutes it would take in a straight line. Thanks to hostile architecture, I guess.
Have you considered digging a tunnel under the freeway?
Yeah I mean just take a walk in pretty much any town or city in the US* and you will quickly see how everything was designed only with cars in mind and just the smallest nod to pedestrians. Like for anything more than crossing the street it is abysmal.
- There are some walkable areas but they are a fairly rare exception
2km are a ~20min walk
What is the straight short line between the two places like, then? I presume there’s a terrible lack of pavement?
There’s pavement all right; it’s getting across the four-lane high-speed road that’s the problem
Just walk under it bro, it’s not like there’s some 11 ft 8 inch bridge. /s
There’s pavement all right; it’s getting across the four-lane high-speed road that’s the problem
ahhh thats not too bad
Frogger style 🙃
The real issue is that you’re using Google Maps and Google Maps is notoriously bad when creating pedestrian or bike routes. For those cases you should use a router that’s based on OpenStreetMap since OSM’s database it’s way better when dealing with foot and bike infrastructure. The same route using an OSM based router gives a perfectly fine walkable route.
Is that a safe walk? 🤔
There are some sidewalks, so it could be safe.
