• ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    older folks to get arround without obstacles

    Bro has not seen a Brazilian sidewalk, there are light posts in the middle of it, and the owners of the buildings are responsible for maintaining it, so every 10 meters there is a giant step and some rough terrain. Brazil has horrible urban planning and walkability, the city hall decision just sounds like carbrain to me. “The sidewalk is small so we will push people indoors” Why is the sidewalk small in the first place?

    • HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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      3 days ago

      I haven’t been to all of Brasil and you’re right, sidewalks come in all shapes and sides. Or non existent. My theory on why sidewalks are small in some cities is that local governments make the streets too wide for trucks to pass.