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Sidewalks used to be wider. It’s a fact that rarely gets acknowledged in discussions about road diets. Usually the road diet debate is framed as taking space AWAY from cars. Really it’s about giving it BACK to pedestrians. Here’s a good article about it https://tinyurl.com/2s4bzxw3
My grocery store is literally 0.7mi from my house, but there’s no sidewalks along the two 6 lane roads I’d need to follow to feet there.