You’re looking at that right by the way. THREE freeway ramps!! I walked this last week and it was genuinely terrifying. The first freeway ramp when coming from the bus stop has NO pedestrian lights or signals.
Also those of you with good eyes will notice that there is NO SIDEWALK south of the bus stop. None. If you want to walk south on that particular street (which is 5 lanes btw) then you have to cross the freeway to get to the other side of the road.
Wait, do you go over or under the freeway ramps? The map makes me think it’s under, but from your description it sounds like you’re going over?
Either way it looks like a very dangerous walk.
You go over. You go under the overpasses, but the crosswalks will the on-ramp and the off-ramps are level
Ah, now I see. Sorry, I read three and my head automatically only saw the overpasses.
Sorry you have to deal with these kinds of situations. I’d ask if you could address these problems with the town council, but I’m guessing the answer will be very predictable.
Yeah, a lot of people have tried. The issue is really just from a cost perspective and the town council has repeatedly said they won’t be fixing anything here due to it being cost prohibitive. The freeway is one of the busiest in the country (although our section isn’t too bad) so shutting down an exit or entrance or even an overpass would be bad for business.
It really all just stems from this street formerly being very rural, like you only got off the freeway here to go to 1 other town 20 miles away, or a government agriculture facility. Now there’s a mall, Walmart, grocery stores, a few strip malls… Etc., so it didn’t matter that the road design was trashy even by 1970s standards when only 50 people used it a day
20 years ago the average resident here probably would’ve never gone here. Now people commute here.