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Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don’t need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it’s New Jersey. They’re gonna splatter you for fun.

If you manage to get on the turnpike before the cops stop you, a soccer mom is gonna do the Jersey slide in a RAV4 and turn your entire group into a wet speedbump

this? you want to walk down this????

please say sike

IT’S NOT A FUCKING STREET ITS AN 8-LANE SUPERHIGHWAY THAT GOES OVER A SWAMP

footpath

that is grass. just like ur ass, if you try to walk this thing

Image me gently taking your hand as I tell you the following:

This is ABSOLUTELY a perfectly fine footpath.

In fact, with how much space I’m seeing here, it is entirely plausible, that the European hordes will just create a temporary little Wanderweg right next to the highway. With that much space they might not even have to interfere with traffic.

But also have you seen the space between your highways? I‘d say the gaps each easily fit another whole stream of European walking hordes. Or maybe even two going opposite directions :D

tightly grips your hand with both of my sweaty hands.

the grass is not a permanent feature. there just happens to be a chunk of it there. the side of the road can vary from grass to swampwater ditches to steep embankments to absolutely nothing within a very short distance.

they will call in every highway enforcer in the state and mass incarcerate the lot of you before they allow you to Darwin Award yourselves across 6 lanes of traffic into an international incident or, (their real concern) impede the progress of the single most important north-south interstate corridor in america, ball kicky game be damned.

(I’m starting to believe that a fair number of you in the notes have We’re Better Than Stupid Americans embedded so deeply into your cultural identity that you will Just Not Listen to anything we say to you about the material circumstances about the place we live in, rather than taking us at our word that there is a reason that most Americans travel the way we do and it’s a good reason.)

“it’s not cool to walk across the autobahn but-” YOU ARE PROPOSING WALKING ACROSS THE AUTOBAHN.

I cannot emphasize this enough that I-95 is like the Autobahn of the East Coast. I’m a very stubborn walker. My friends and family will attest to this. I hate cars and don’t drive and my primary mode of transportation is walking supplemented by public transportation. But I would never try to walk I-95 regardless of what state I was in, certainly not New fucking Jersey.

i am impressed by the arrogance on display of thinking that the drivers on the highway will ‘just have to stop’ if there are enough walkers. no they won’t. one, they can’t. two, make them try and they’ll speed up to hit the crowd like ten pin bowls. that space on the side is not a footpath or 'useless’. that is the emergency lane. that is where cars pull over for trouble and it is what emergency vehicles use to get to hurt people. it’s not only super illegal to block, it is immoral. you use that like a foot path and not only will you be neatly rounded up into vans for arrest, i will not be upset

I think it needs to be said clearly to the Europeans: US roads don’t have continuous sidewalks or pedestrian footpaths. What that means is that while there may be an area suitable for walking for 0.5 mile of a road, it’s almost certain that it begins and ends in places that are no accessible on foot. There’s no way to get to it because it doesn’t exist at the on-ramps or off-ramps. It ends abruptly in place that will get you stranded on the side of a highway with several miles to walk back to the nearest exit, which you can’t reach because the footpath ends well before the exit is even within sight, and your choice of getting away from said highway is either to climb a 7 foot brick wall or wade through a marsh.

And this just sums up the issue in residential neighborhoods. Americans don’t like this, our cities are just planned for cars.

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