I love that they needed to put up this sign though, because they clearly know that visitors from any other country wouldn't expect not to be able to just walk anywhere. 😄
The reason they have to have a sign is that this is very much not the norm. Walking to places that are close by, especially if you're traveling and in a hotel, is pretty normal here.
I lived 8 years of my young adult life in Portland Oregon, US, without a car. I took the bus everywhere, and when I walked you really have to treat the freeways, which are bordered with high walls and fences, like they are rivers with only occasional known crossings.
A street that goes over a freeway could be 30 to 60 blocks away.
Rural highways, sure, just walk across. But in town freeways are concrete moats that divide neighborhoods into isolated chunks.
The USA has generally been hostile to walking and biking. Experience will vary by location. In some cities, these methods of transport are considered in the design. In other areas, travel by bike and people may throw things at you from their car windows or intentionally blow smoke in your direction.
Some places were designed to keep pedestrians out to keep out people of low income. Even when that intention goes away, the design decisions remain.
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@AlexanderVI @stephanie My grandma went for a walk in an American city (a Miami suburb).
She saw a woman in her front garden and asked her the time.
The woman screamed, ran indoors, and called the cops.
Because my grandma was white and old and female, rather than black and young and male, the cops tried talking to her rather than just shooting first. They kept trying to find out why she was walking, assuming it was because her car had broken down. They were completely incapable of comprehending that she was walking because she'd gone for a walk and finally concluded that she was just mad.
New Jersey does not believe that pedestrians should be allowed to exist when there are vehicles that can do the moving. There are no sidewalks around the park which is surrounded by highways.
Pretty sure I've seen this image before. There are places I've stayed in the USA where there ARE no sidewalks and you're definitely not allowed to walk on the road.
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doubt it's anything special for the World Cup, there's lots of places where it's illegal to walk on the roadways anywhere except designated crossing spots & often sidewalks do not exist
that said, i wouldn't advise anyone from a foreign land to visit the US at this time, esp. not for something as silly as watching a sports event, there will be other sports events in places where you don't risk an interaction with the "authorities"
@peachfront In SANE countries, sidewalks and pedestrian routes do exist. Including footbridges or underpasses where necessary for crossing major highways.
@regordane @peachfront It's particularly important to allow people to walk to places like stadiums that attract huge crowds. A big sporting event can completely overwhelm the local transportation infrastructure, resulting in nightmare traffic. Cars are the worst available way of getting lots of people to the same place at the same time, so big venues that depend on them are terrible to visit.
@regordane @peachfront I just find this bizarre. Here in Los Angeles- a city famous for its love of cars- the World Cup stadium is a short walk from the train station. The stadium is in Exposition Park, so it's literally a walk in the park to get from the station to the stadium. There's no price gouging; the fare is the regular $1.75. LA Metro has a helpful web page about how to get to the stadium using public transit:
Bonkers. Where I live in he West of Scotland I could get to at least 5 professional football clubs stadiums on public transport within an hour. Most of them require a bus journey then some walking, with a trip on the Glasgow subway for one of them
For most of thes journeys the last stage is on foot of between 10-20 minutes.
In alpahbetical order the clubs are; Celtic,Hamilton, Motherwell, Queens Park and Rangers.
Luckily, there is public transportation and shuttles from the hotels. It is seriously deadly to cross 10 lane roads.
Don’t come at me, I take public transportation when I can and drive an ev that is powered by my solar panels. I just think, given the circumstances, it is a sign that needs to be there.
the meadowlands has the worst stadium placement *anywhere*. it's in a (gorgeous!) swamp. surrounded by superhighways. including the new jersey turnpike. (we've all gone to look for americaaaaaa.) like the autobahn, these are comtrolled access roads with no peds or bikes or horses allowed.
The "no walking" sign predated Fifa so no changes.
The logic used for the NJ Transit absurdly high rates: since we are carrying foreigners instead of taxpayers, the service cannot be subsidzed, so we are charging full rate. But the initial break even of $150 was magically owered to just under $100.
This obviously sucks and yes US transportation/walkability is bad but please anyone going to Metlife stadium, if you walk across the highway you will get hit. It’s not even a threat, please please please, you can take an underground metro/sub into the stadium, but do not risk your life to actually cross a multilane high speed highway on foot. Yes there should be easier ways to walk into it, but please be safe. I know the signs seem silly (and they are without context) but please!
Here's a picture of one road in Santa Clara County, with lots of parking for businesses. The excuse for a sidewalk is at best intermittent. That's true on some nearby streets as well.
It is a mess and can be hard to fix: unless you narrow the road, you might have to put a sidewalk on what is now private property, so you might have to either buy it or take it using eminent domain, or get the property owner to go along with it.
A reporter rode out there on a bike from NYC. There were few sidewalks, no bike lanes. He had to bike much of it on the highway with very narrow shoulders on the side of the road. When he got there it was hard to find an entrance you could walk into. His conclusion was that it was too dangerous to bike there.
Sound Transit and FIFA partner with Cascade Bicycle Club to encourage biking to World Cup matches.Cascade will provide free and secure bike parking at Lumen Field and the Downtown Redmond and Rainier Beach light rail stations on match days.
@TimWardCam @AlexanderVI @stephanie Not that they would even give me a visa if I tried (need to stop calling their president Mangolini) but yeah, as a person of colour I don’t want to get murdered by their thug cops.
I appreciate the love being shown to us by the Americans in this thread saying "do not walk across the freeway". It shows they care. But it's not really the point. We have freeways in our countries too, and people don't walk on them. But we also have bridges across those freeways because people should be able to get places on foot. Especially places where tens of thousands of people are all going to be leaving at once.
”It’s illegal to walk in the US during the cup”? That is not what the sign says. It says it is illegal to walk on the roads in question. There are lots of roads here in Europe that it is illegal to walk on, too.
Sure, it is idiotic to build stadiums without any access for pedestrians. But let’s not exaggerate. That doesn’t increase the credibility of our side.
I lived in Los Angeles. The furthest anyone walks there, other than on a beach, is to a bus stop. In posh neighborhoods, you'd be stopped and questioned by LAPD.
I was trying to cross a 2 lane road in San Diego once, and got told off by a policeman standing nearby. I had to walk about 50m to a crossing, cross, and then 50m back again, just to get to something on the opposite side of the road, even there were no cars around. Crazy
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There is a multi-lane highway with a concrete barrier dividing the two directions. There is also a barbed wire fence, and then train tracks on the other side of the fence. Walking along the train tracks is strictly unlawful. It does not look safe to travel by foot.
Many streets in the USA are unsafe for pedestrians. Many communities are built with only cars in mind.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •There is nothing "leading world country" about the fact they force everyone to either have a (massive) vehicle or take (crappy) public transit
A truly world leading country would make sure to cover at least the basics like walking and cycling before adding another car lane
Can't imagine this has to be spelled out..
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •I lived 8 years of my young adult life in Portland Oregon, US, without a car. I took the bus everywhere, and when I walked you really have to treat the freeways, which are bordered with high walls and fences, like they are rivers with only occasional known crossings.
A street that goes over a freeway could be 30 to 60 blocks away.
Rural highways, sure, just walk across. But in town freeways are concrete moats that divide neighborhoods into isolated chunks.
ThinkingSapien
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •The USA has generally been hostile to walking and biking. Experience will vary by location. In some cities, these methods of transport are considered in the design. In other areas, travel by bike and people may throw things at you from their car windows or intentionally blow smoke in your direction.
Some places were designed to keep pedestrians out to keep out people of low income. Even when that intention goes away, the design decisions remain.
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Unknown parent • • •@AlexanderVI @stephanie My grandma went for a walk in an American city (a Miami suburb).
She saw a woman in her front garden and asked her the time.
The woman screamed, ran indoors, and called the cops.
Because my grandma was white and old and female, rather than black and young and male, the cops tried talking to her rather than just shooting first. They kept trying to find out why she was walking, assuming it was because her car had broken down. They were completely incapable of comprehending that she was walking because she'd gone for a walk and finally concluded that she was just mad.
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Yeah, i am not cut out for that shit. I would get myself killed one way or another
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Pretty sure I've seen this image before. There are places I've stayed in the USA where there ARE no sidewalks and you're definitely not allowed to walk on the road.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •you’d have to understand the history of the Meadowlands.
It was a swamp.
Then they built a horse racing track on a dry part. This led to highways 3 and 17. The Turnpike was already there.
Then they filled and built Giants Stadium. That created more traffic and the highways expanded.
Then they built the Arena (now part of the American Dream mall). More traffic.
THEN they realized they needed a hotel for the complex and built it on the only land available nearby - across Route 3. Cont.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •doubt it's anything special for the World Cup, there's lots of places where it's illegal to walk on the roadways anywhere except designated crossing spots & often sidewalks do not exist
that said, i wouldn't advise anyone from a foreign land to visit the US at this time, esp. not for something as silly as watching a sports event, there will be other sports events in places where you don't risk an interaction with the "authorities"
Hilary
in reply to peachfront • • •In SANE countries, sidewalks and pedestrian routes do exist. Including footbridges or underpasses where necessary for crossing major highways.
Roger Moore
in reply to Hilary • • •It's particularly important to allow people to walk to places like stadiums that attract huge crowds. A big sporting event can completely overwhelm the local transportation infrastructure, resulting in nightmare traffic. Cars are the worst available way of getting lots of people to the same place at the same time, so big venues that depend on them are terrible to visit.
stux⚡️
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Train / metro tickets to the stadium are normally around 12 dollars but because of the massive increase of people they now costs 150 dollars
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I just find this bizarre. Here in Los Angeles- a city famous for its love of cars- the World Cup stadium is a short walk from the train station. The stadium is in Exposition Park, so it's literally a walk in the park to get from the station to the stadium. There's no price gouging; the fare is the regular $1.75. LA Metro has a helpful web page about how to get to the stadium using public transit:
metro.net/riding/world-cup/
How to Get to World Cup Matches in LA | Metro
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •it's crap but it's not US exclusivity, this is a FIFA mandate
they read tickets 1km far from the stadiums and only valid ticket holders to enter the perimeter
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Where I live in he West of Scotland I could get to at least 5 professional football clubs stadiums on public transport within an hour.
Most of them require a bus journey then some walking, with a trip on the Glasgow subway for one of them
For most of thes journeys the last stage is on foot of between 10-20 minutes.
In alpahbetical order the clubs are;
Celtic,Hamilton, Motherwell, Queens Park and Rangers.
Marc Scheffel
in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Luckily, there is public transportation and shuttles from the hotels. It is seriously deadly to cross 10 lane roads.
Don’t come at me, I take public transportation when I can and drive an ev that is powered by my solar panels. I just think, given the circumstances, it is a sign that needs to be there.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •oh, it's the same in Mexico.
We're not allowed to be 1km near the Banorte Stadium.
People that live near the stadium need to carry a document that proves they live there.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •The "no walking" sign predated Fifa so no changes.
The logic used for the NJ Transit absurdly high rates: since we are carrying foreigners instead of taxpayers, the service cannot be subsidzed, so we are charging full rate. But the initial break even of $150 was magically owered to just under $100.
Govnor
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Here's a picture of one road in Santa Clara County, with lots of parking for businesses. The excuse for a sidewalk is at best intermittent. That's true on some nearby streets as well.
It is a mess and can be hard to fix: unless you narrow the road, you might have to put a
sidewalk on what is now private property, so you might have to either buy it or take it
using eminent domain, or get the property owner to go along with it.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •”It’s illegal to walk in the US during the cup”? That is not what the sign says. It says it is illegal to walk on the roads in question. There are lots of roads here in Europe that it is illegal to walk on, too.
Sure, it is idiotic to build stadiums without any access for pedestrians. But let’s not exaggerate. That doesn’t increase the credibility of our side.
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Somali referee set to officiate World Cup denied entry into US.
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •There is a multi-lane highway with a concrete barrier dividing the two directions. There is also a barbed wire fence, and then train tracks on the other side of the fence. Walking along the train tracks is strictly unlawful. It does not look safe to travel by foot.
Many streets in the USA are unsafe for pedestrians. Many communities are built with only cars in mind.
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