still, pedestrians should be accounted for, especially in downtown

plenty of cities (especially NYC) do construction year round without fully blocking access to sidewalks

This is every city how they are allowed to shutdown a sidewalk and get away with telling people to Cross the street is beyond me. The Shaq tower was the worst offender I seen the elderly and people having to run across the busy intersection because they didn't know the sidewalk was shutdown

God forbid you have to open your eyes while walking down the sidewalk

So you acknowledge that the choice was made between maintaining a car lane or providing a safe and accessible path for pedestrians. In other words, the title of this thread.

A travel lane, by the way, that is almost always filled with parked cars with their hazards on, making it not much of a lane at all.

If extremely crowded Manhattan can find the space to always provide a walkway, than so can Newark.

Regardless, the burden of how the accommodation is provided should fall on the construction people.

Heres another example in NYC with two simultaneous projects

One side of the street they build an in-road walkway
https://goo.gl/maps/iqJRCwpifbBUwLFY9

So presumably the folks across the street who started their construction later had to create a pedestrian tunnel since they couldnt use another lane

https://goo.gl/maps/EzHQQ62uBuD8obB76
https://goo.gl/maps/EAA5Pzp6g2NbRaAx5

The OP’s point (or maybe mine is) is that any other major city there would be protective scaffolding with lighting allowing the sidewalk to continue during construction. Rather than a big FU to pedestrians for the next 12-18 months at a sidewalk in the heart of the downtown.

So that is a good point that I hadn’t considered. Apologies. Obviously I did not mean that blind people are idiots.

What is the general practice in that case for when it’s not considered a good idea to remove a lane of traffic to accommodate? In some places you narrow a lane but this would be taking a two lane thoroughfare down to one and probably cause other issues.

You're a piece of shit if you think blind people are idiots. Fuck off.

If someone turns the corner on Halsey and doesn’t this ahead and cross to the north side of Raymond in order to get to Broad, then they’re an idiot. It’s not the block is impassable. Just cross the street at the corner.

That’s how long construction takes!

Not providing a safe walkway can lead to someone getting killed. The area has heavy pedestrian traffic and "temporary" can mean anything from 1 week to 5 years in this city. And it shouldnt be allowed for more than a few hours for a true emergency repair.

Go spend an hour in NYC and youll find every single construction site has a pedestrian walkway.

Example:
https://goo.gl/maps/9CQxh7ib5tFRyvUT7
https://goo.gl/maps/BxDe6TkonMb9PacP6

Temporary? Will probably be like that for a year.

There are certainly things to point to that the city can do better but this is just a temporary condition for construction. I wouldn’t count this along with the lack of bike lanes, bump outs, etc. when done, the pedestrian access will be restored. It’s not a permanent issue.

If you want your food to be farmed in Newark that way I hope you like the taste of heavy metals

I sent you a dm

They were in newark news almost every month for a few years.

Do you have a portfolio, anything to show what you have worked on?

There are quite a few locations in New Jersey where you are not required to drive into actual traffic during a road test. Lodi and Rahway for example has a closed circuit. Wayne I believe is in a parking lot. Just wanted to check if something changed in Newark.

I know a certain butterfly themed supervillain who is looking to rent. I'll pass it on.

Not required to go onto the road? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a road test?

Not required to go onto the road? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a road test?

Not required to go onto the road? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a road test?

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how mch?

Its not about the brightness, its about the design.

For any streetlight design, including the standard cobra or the "historic" looking lamps the city loves, the side facing the building can be shielded by simply using a thin piece of metal, as shown here

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/618113-street-light-shielding/#

Of course the better option is to instead use a lamp design that properly lights the street and sidewalk instead of sending 3/4 of the light in the wrong direction (up, into bedrooms)

https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/620f/e040/3e4b/3104/6c00/0009/slideshow/fi2.jpg?1645207589

Just because something is bad now doesnt mean it is ok to get worse.

Please DM when u can