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minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoThose same people walk on sidewalks without going through the toll booths! (for US people, sidewalks are designated areas on the side of the road especially for pedestrians, or as some people say, wasted space)
minus-squaredependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoWe call them pavements in the UK and I kinda think sidewalk is more descriptive. You walk on the side of the road.
minus-squarehangonasecond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoDown under, it’s usually footpath which I think is even more descriptive
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoFootpath is also the more popular term in the UK IMO
minus-squareBuddahriffic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoFootpath makes it sound like it goes through the woods or a field or something.
minus-squareBertuccio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 years agoIn the US basically anything paved is pavement. Asphalt road: Pavement Concrete sidewalk: Pavement Giant parking lot: Pavement Gravel road: Believe it or not - paveme… well that one’s debatable.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoI’d say gravel roads can be argued to be “paved” if it’s really fine gravel that has been properly packed down by repeated driving on it, to the point where it starts looking shiny and sort of like glazed clay
Those same people walk on sidewalks without going through the toll booths!
(for US people, sidewalks are designated areas on the side of the road especially for pedestrians, or as some people say, wasted space)
We call them pavements in the UK and I kinda think sidewalk is more descriptive. You walk on the side of the road.
Down under, it’s usually footpath which I think is even more descriptive
Footpath is also the more popular term in the UK IMO
Footpath makes it sound like it goes through the woods or a field or something.
In the US basically anything paved is pavement.
Asphalt road: Pavement
Concrete sidewalk: Pavement
Giant parking lot: Pavement
Gravel road: Believe it or not - paveme… well that one’s debatable.
I’d say gravel roads can be argued to be “paved” if it’s really fine gravel that has been properly packed down by repeated driving on it, to the point where it starts looking shiny and sort of like glazed clay
Gravelment