I don't even mean in a "Ayy I'm walking here" kind of way. Today I was getting my airbags replaced for a couple hours so I was just walking around (Nowhere to go to because it was one of those near-the-highway places with nothing but department stores and car dealerships, but that's a different discussion.) Literally, it seemed like the entire layout of the area was saying "Fuck you, drive around" Like, there was barely even any sidewalks, which you'd think would be the bare minimum but nope.
The one place worth going to was this supremely out of place fountain, but to get there I had to do several different crossings of a very busy street, with nothing to help but those damn buttons you're supposed to push to, I think, make a red light (they didn't work, whoopity-do) and one crossing didn't even have that. Eventually I decided "Screw it", since there was no "official" crossing, so I just crossed the rest of the way from one of those tiny concrete islands. I didn't get run over, of course, but now I think about how comparatively easy it was for me, being able to walk on my feet; I can't even imagine how much worse it is in, say, a wheelchair. I guess America hates anyone not driving.
Suffice to say that the whole time I was thinking of this painting
Where I live there's a major highway which divides an area of curvy, wide, 25 mile per hour suburban streets from the crowded, higher speed commercial streets. The bus stops are all on this highway, but if you should be so unfortunate as to actually work in the commercial area (where all the jobs are, naturally) you'll find yourself walking for up to a mile along these horrible streets with no sidewalks, no shoulders to speak of, no crossings at the many traffic lights, and spotty lighting. When it was developed it wasn't zoned to require sidewalks. The idiot township commissioners are elected by the powerful farming lobby here, who obviously don't care about people riding the bus out from the city to work.
So yeah, it's a cross-country walk for them if they want to live. I love democracy!