This is the only sidewalk to get down from a ridge in town. The walking path is under 3’ wide, often with piles of junk. The road is 30 mph, but people usually go 40+ mph and it’s around a blind corner with a huge retaining wall on one side.
Bonus: once you get to the bottom of the hill, the sidewalk ends in a crux between two merging double lanes (makes a 4 lane road) so you don’t even get to keep heading down the hill at the bottom, but get to then cross two lanes of 40mph traffic with no crosswalks.
Funny that this is in Washington, because many of the roads in Victoria on Vancouver Island look exactly like this, retaining wall and a side walk that was installed almost as an afterthought. Maybe it’s the harsh climate of the PNW that makes everyone so dependent on cars.
This is the only sidewalk to get down from a ridge in town. The walking path is under 3’ wide, often with piles of junk. The road is 30 mph, but people usually go 40+ mph and it’s around a blind corner with a huge retaining wall on one side.
Bonus: once you get to the bottom of the hill, the sidewalk ends in a crux between two merging double lanes (makes a 4 lane road) so you don’t even get to keep heading down the hill at the bottom, but get to then cross two lanes of 40mph traffic with no crosswalks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/BR4jVyi8E4HhTZBWA
Funny that this is in Washington, because many of the roads in Victoria on Vancouver Island look exactly like this, retaining wall and a side walk that was installed almost as an afterthought. Maybe it’s the harsh climate of the PNW that makes everyone so dependent on cars.