Stairs for pedestrian walkways - will there be stairs ?
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Yes, I was wondering this too. It would be really nice to have, hopefully not too hard to add in.
well what inspired this question was looking at the sneak peak video they put out the other day :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUyHYJWL9ag
at 0:23 we see a pedestrian overpass with a very steep gradient - I was just wondering if those were stairs .. its not very clear in the video. you wouldnt have a ramp that steep and expect people to walk up it - but it looks about the right angle for steps. and if youre gonna have steps, then you really ought to have elevators too.
It would open up a lot of possibilities in urban design. Hopefully it can be modded in.
Stairs-only are not encouraged in newly built pedestrian bridges any more in England. The move is to always include a ramp so as not to exclude wheelchair users. I don't see the point in taking up space in my simulated city with both stairs and ramps, or stairs and lifts, so I am happy to have just ramps.
What we actually need to make the existing pedestrian bridges better is for a one-click raise to only raise it to the bare minimum height for clearance of the road beneath, so we don't need to have such steep slopes or long run ups, and to be able to turn the ramps sharply on a dog-leg so they don't have to start miles away from the edge of the road the bridge is meant to cross. They need to be only one tilewidth wide, and to be able to double back on themselves in just two tilewidths
What we actually need to make the existing pedestrian bridges better is for a one-click raise to only raise it to the bare minimum height for clearance of the road beneath, so we don't need to have such steep slopes or long run ups, and to be able to turn the ramps sharply on a dog-leg so they don't have to start miles away from the edge of the road the bridge is meant to cross. They need to be only one tilewidth wide, and to be able to double back on themselves in just two tilewidths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-leg_(stairs)
I didnt know they were called that. yeah, that would be very useful to have.
In germany many of these construction is replaced by pedestrian tunnel so you can drive with a bike or a wheelchair under the rails.
so people are supposed to walk up a 45° angle slope ? I suppose you could do that if you took a really long run up .. and I guess to come down you'd just slide down. whheeeeeeeee !
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It would be a nice feature if we did lay a slope steeper than 35degrees if the graphical representation of the pedestrian path or sidewalk turned into something looking like stairs.
I don't think it's stairs either. It seems like they added pedestrian paths/bridges at the last minutes and just reused the code for normal roads. Better than not having I suppose. Maybe something to patch in later.
Woody, could you delete the second image in your third post (the rachelrettman one), my antivirus keeps flagging it as a virus.
