Modern designs can be really cool. So can cities and neighborhoods designed for pedestrian safety. As a part-time cyclist, I appreciate when there are measures put in place to make people safer. For instance, crosswalks for people walking through intersections. That’s a no-brainer. But I’ve noticed an annoying design with some of these crosswalk areas, in combination with the concrete median curbs. Take a look at a mistake I made recently… mostly my own dumb error (the rest of the story here) but also I blame whoever designed a crosswalk through a curbed median. It nearly broke my truck!
And it happened again with a driver in front of me, recorded on my dash cam. Take a look at this little car and if you could’ve heard the bottom of the car scraping the concrete, you would’ve flinched as hard as I did. What’s the harm in making the curb sloped to keep cars from suffering major damage?
City planners– get on it. Make them sloped, or better yet– These fingernail (for lack of a better term) medians are super dumb and dangerous for vehicles so stop it!
-Out of the Wilderness
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