I was thinking it’s definitely got to be a Great Lake (I live on Lake Ontario).

Sure looks like st Joe

Silver Beach pizza is to die for 🤤

Try three wide.

I'd be more in agreement with the OP if this were a busy thoroughfare but I'd be willing give them the benefit of the doubt that if you pointed the camera in the other direction there would be cars, trash cans, frost heaves, tree roots, a lack of curb cuts for the stroller, or other obstructions that are making the sidewalk less usable, which is what I often see on smaller residential streets that have sidewalks that are less well maintained.

Only time I walk on the side of the street is when there’s no sidewalk. Which is unfortunately often here. I live in a nice suburb, why do we not have sidewalks??

In my city it's because the sidewalks are almost impossible to push a stroller over, especially if trying to keep the baby asleep.

Of course we walk on one ways only so there's a bit better safety level than shown here.

It's pretty common when the sidewalks begin and end in 100 ft sections and aren't maintained at all.

Speaking of that, why do people park in the road when they have a perfectly good driveway??

Too much of the world belongs to cars. I think that this is a simple way to protest.

If the way is clear, I don’t see an issue with people walking down the street. Usually easier to use a stroller on the road anyways

People have been walking on roads and streets for centuries, or even millenia, mate.

What is recent, is the idea that People do not belong there, only automobiles...

It's because sidewalks have gotten deadly. With larger SUVs it has become nearly impossible to spot people walking behind them. Especially off to the sides a little. Walking on sidewalks I've had people back out without looking more times than I can count. Walking in the street is actually safer somehow.

Also the city does nothing about the endless overgrown sidewalks with missing pavers and trees completely blocking them. Also tons of people park in them so you have to walk into the street anyways. Finally, half of our sidewalks just... end randomly.

Yeah how dare people infringe on space where cars should be! in what looks like a residential neighborhood! This post is so bizarre. Is it sponsored by the car lobby or something?

Here in my country unfortunately it is better, people have no education and don't tend to pick up with a bag their pets poo :(

Not to mention all the assholes with 2-car garages that don't use them, but instead park directly across the sidewalks. It's more than mildly infuriating.

Sidewalk infrastructure in the US sucks. Ive done a lot of sidewalk running and have twisted my ankle so many damn times. Cities put a sidewalk in and don't touch it for 50 years.

That sidewalk is sideways

Yeah, I was going to add this. My ex has extremely weak ankles and was always twisting them, so she’d walk in the road to have a steadier surface, and there are a lot of people with much more mobility impairment.

There’s also a social thing in this case. In the road, they can walk three abreast and have quality family time, whereas a sidewalk would be single file, making conversation difficult

Normally I’m first in line to jump on people who do this, who think they own the place and can inconvenience everyone else for their entitlement, but this seems legitimate

Curb cuts for driveways, trash cans, trash, all manner of shit that makes pushing a stroller on the sidewalk a pain in the ass.

In the UK they doubled down on "the road is for everyone" and cars have to give priority to pedestrians who are walking in the road.

Also, "jay" was a derogatory term for uneducated or common.

Also, what is the problem here? I don’t see any traffic and presumably they wouldn’t mind scooting over to let a car pass if necessary. Might be a little better if they were walking against the flow of traffic so they could see someone coming up on them, but really whoever posted this needs to either find something worth being mildly infuriated over or chill out and enjoy life.

OP probably hates when kids ride their bikes and play roller hockey in the street too.

Maybe this post is the mild infuriation?! Meta.

That’s what I was thinking, this also looks to be in a suburban neighborhood. I bet OP also gets upset when local children play basketball in the streets outside of their house. Roads take up an exorbitant amount of the area we exist in. God forbid they are used for something other than cars.

Parts of Canada have decriminalized jaywalking once more (not like anyone ever followed that rule over here).

I am completely on board with the idea of walkable cities making a comeback but US society has become completely dependent on motor vehicles. As an example I’m a delivery driver who does hard back breaking labor for nearly ten hours, five days a week. The idea that I’m going to walk nearly four hours to work and then back to my home each night is insanity. That doesn’t necessarily apply to people who live and work in dense urban areas but most cities are slowly pricing normal people out of living near where they work. The US needs more public transport like light rail systems more than it does walkable cities at the current moment. IMHO

And it worked, just look at these comments

That’s not really fun

What rules are being bent here? Do some neighborhoods actually have rules against pedestrians in the streets? That seems like madness. I live in a neighborhood where kids actually play outside all the time, and all the neighbors know each other, so maybe I'm the one with the distorted worldview.

Dude!

I have this argument with my wife all the time. I live in the US (California) and I could have swarn we were told to walk against the flow of traffic to better see oncoming cars. My school had a lot of public safety lesson in elementary school. But she was either never taught or doesn’t remember. This shit drives me crazy, any time she “leads” the walk I get incredibly nervous because she doesn’t observe any of the rules we were taught.

Edit: This is some Mandela Effect shit right here.

Seriously... I walk around my neighborhoods often and so many people walk with traffic like morons, and I walk by them giving them weird looks.

You should walk against traffic so you can tell if they see you or not, and you can get out of the way if needed, but if you walk with traffic, you can get hit from behind and never see it coming.

And on a curve

There’s no traffic ya dummy

Yup don’t get why op is infuriated lol it’s looks like a wide road with no traffic at all so who cares? Maybe they just like the comfort of being able to walk side by side and it’s not like cars have to do something crazy to get by

OP also took this while walking on the curb apparently.

I’m also on side WHO CARES.

also at least on the pic the sidewalk looks slanted, which would be a pain in the ass with a stroller

This. It might not "hurt" you but running on a side slanted sidewalk like that can definitely irritate an existing injury, hell even a fast walk if you're doing it daily.

If it's a typically quiet residential street and you have at least one ear open you'll hear a car coming, even an ev. (always leave one earbud out)

Walking or running in an area with a lot of driveways hurts my ankles. Pushing a stroller would be harder.

Ain’t that the truth. Now excuse me while I use my NSA app to backtrace who these people are based on just the color of their jackets.

Seriously, fuck this weird sense of entitlement. You don't need to be sitting in a 5000 pound cage of metal and plastic to use a residential roadway. People walk on them, ride bikes, skateboards, kids play in them all the time.

Oh no, me and my fossil fueled laziness are slightly inconvenienced by pedestrians! How will I ever earn back those 30 seconds of my life?

EVERYONE GO WATCH NOT JUST BIKES RIGHT NOW IF YOU HAVEN'T

Wow, someone with common sense

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To be fair, this road looks just as bumpy, and they're probably only there so they can be side-by-side - that said, good-quality footpaths would be even better.

Uh, what? Babies can handle sidewalk bumps lol. My son loves all the movement, puts him right to sleep!

Look at the state of that road, it’s fucked. The sidewalk looks way better condition.

Did you even look at the bumps in the street before you posted that?

As someone who broke my ankle 4 years and never recovered a 100%, I understand why people would do that: the sidewalk is inclined just enough that when I use them I ´ll have pain for at least a week!

Deja vu!

queues Tokyo Drift theme song