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Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends
Sidewalks and bike lanes may be deficient or lacking, but the biggest problem is that they are unmapped.
However, unlike most people who get around primarily in cars, we have been sorely disappointed at being directed to hop a fence to jaywalk across four lanes of 40-mph traffic when we request a bike route (this is a lived experience). Car routing was terrible years ago but today Google and Apple can instruct me to use the second-to-rightmost lane to take the next exit because I’ll have to bear left 300 feet afterwards! Click on the selection “Ways with no mention of sidewalks” (NB: this is a big chunk of data to query and load, so be patient – for us, it may take 15-20 seconds to appear) and you will see the map covered by a deliberately-chosen inky black.
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