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It would be nice if the sidewalks were extended in width to fully accommodate a full car and a fully clear 1.8m sidewalk width at minimum.
This would mean if someone does not park their car, then the sidewalk becomes larger for everyone else to enjoy.
First of all there's probably no space for sidewalks this wide on both sides plus a street unless you want to demolish a lot of houses. And second do you really think it wouldn't be constantly used as parking and therefore never be usable as a sidewalk?
Never implied to demo homes or change setbacks, the idea would be to narrow the street to one actual car width as opposed to 2 or three car widths, extending the sidewalk width into the street.
This has a added benefit as if the street needs repaving you only need to spend money on repaving of one car lane width, as opposed to 2 or 3 car widths on a single lane street.
And now what happens is if a car is not parked that space becomes usable to a pedestrian to cross at or walk on.
The article is about cars parking on the sidewalk because the streets are already narrow. These are usually two way streets with effectively a single lane for both directions.