Sidewalks again...

[OakLeaf]

I have an interesting question...

Could you please tell me if your city/town has footpaths on both sides of the road?

It came up in my tranpsortation class today about why we (perth) don't(doesn't) have footpaths on both sides & wondered if it's the same in other countries?

Just wondering

By "footpaths," is that the same thing we call "sidewalks" in the USA? Or is it more like a wider, multi-use path?

There's no national standard here. But outside of major cities and the downtown areas of small towns, most places I know of in the USA have no sidewalks at all. When there are sidewalks, I think it's more common that they're on both sides of the street, but it's not that uncommon to have a sidewalk on just one side.

[crazycanuck]

Yes, sidewalks...(or as ian likes to say " sidewarks" to make fun of my canucklehead accent)