They built the stadium surrounded by highways and off ramps without any sidewalks and hardly any traffic signals. It is encapsulated by unwalkable roads.
I’m gonna be the odd one out here and say that route is hardly unwalkable, and with some minor changes could even be somewhat safe compared to the walk I make to work everyday. I went down the entire route road by road in street view, you’ll be hugging the shoulder in spots, walking in grass and cutting across the road a few times, but you can manage it.
It could be made safe, but it isn’t currently safe (especially considering the shoulders are probably still snowbanks). More importantly, it is illegal because it isn’t safe and scraping up pedestrian smears off the highway is traumatic for the people thay have to do it. It was made illegal instead of being made safe.
I’ll also point out that this circuitous route is estimated to take an hour while in a car it takes 3 minutes. If they put in a sidewalk, a traffic light, and a crosswalk, you could walk from that hotel to the stadium and beat anyone driving because they still have to park. But that’s just that one hotel. I would bet money that if you made the area walkable, you would see more hotels and parking lots pop up.
So, the law as written quoted in the original post, atleast to me and I’m not a lawyer or anything, doesn’t seem to imply that it would actually be illegal. Police might still charge you (because they’re scumbags), but I’m willing to bet its something that a judge would throw out.
They built the stadium surrounded by highways and off ramps without any sidewalks and hardly any traffic signals. It is encapsulated by unwalkable roads.
Here is what Google Maps suggests for walking.
I’m gonna be the odd one out here and say that route is hardly unwalkable, and with some minor changes could even be somewhat safe compared to the walk I make to work everyday. I went down the entire route road by road in street view, you’ll be hugging the shoulder in spots, walking in grass and cutting across the road a few times, but you can manage it.
It could be made safe, but it isn’t currently safe (especially considering the shoulders are probably still snowbanks). More importantly, it is illegal because it isn’t safe and scraping up pedestrian smears off the highway is traumatic for the people thay have to do it. It was made illegal instead of being made safe.
I’ll also point out that this circuitous route is estimated to take an hour while in a car it takes 3 minutes. If they put in a sidewalk, a traffic light, and a crosswalk, you could walk from that hotel to the stadium and beat anyone driving because they still have to park. But that’s just that one hotel. I would bet money that if you made the area walkable, you would see more hotels and parking lots pop up.
So, the law as written quoted in the original post, atleast to me and I’m not a lawyer or anything, doesn’t seem to imply that it would actually be illegal. Police might still charge you (because they’re scumbags), but I’m willing to bet its something that a judge would throw out.
and this is absolutely intentional, because parking fees are a huge piece of their pie.
Bingo, thanks for that,