True, the city is negligent on public-realm investments like this. (I think calling it "godforsaken" is a bit much, though!)
It's also symptomatic of a standard North American disregard for the public realm, not just a Halifax problem.
A lot of the crosswalks in Toronto
look like this or
this. You can barely even tell they were painted once upon a time.
Used to live in Edmonton, and it's especially
bad there too. But then Edmonton is extraordinarily inhospitable for pedestrians.
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