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Urbanism

Dallas: The City That Hates Pedestrians, Pt. 45

Which do you prefer? A fence or a sidewalk?
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Let’s head to the edge of Uptown, on Cole Avenue south of Fitzhugh. The fence has eaten the sidewalk where North Dallas High School is undergoing a $46.5 million renovation, which will land the school a new athletic facility, a band room, and various other renovations that look like they’re really needed.

But pedestrians need their sidewalk, too. Maybe you can make sense of that new driveway. Here’s another image from the job, where an alert FrontBurnervian tells me he “had to step out into oncoming traffic literally as this is a one-way street with no signage whatsoever for pedestrians other than tiny handwritten notes.”

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Send your photo evidence of Dallas hating pedestrians to [email protected]. For more in this series, go here.

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