Sure enough, here’s someone voting with their feet for a sidewalk on the Somerville side of the Alewife Brook Parkway. Quite a failure that there isn’t one.
@bikepedantic those arent old growth trees but yes just reduce the number of lanes and make a sidewalk plus bike boulevard
@bikepedantic it’s maybe an extreme view, but as far as I’m concerned: if you can’t afford to build a sidewalk, you can’t afford to build a road
To be clear, installing a sidewalk here would be millions of dollars in regrading and building a massive retaining wall. Many old-growth trees lost.
I think of that as the opportunity cost of not doing what I think we should do: Reduce Alewife Brook Parkway to three lanes here.