If they can paint sidewalks onto the road, I don’t understand why they can’t just lower the part of the road for vehicles, to create a curb.
They don’t want people to complain about how it’s “not convenient” and lose a couple voters.
It’d be easier to pour more concrete and raise the sidewalk, but yeah
Green paint could be an acceptable temporary solution until the street needs to be redone or there’s more budget. But we all know that the people behind this think that green paint is an acceptable solution until the “pedestrian hell” is not news anymore and people stop paying attention to it.
The government must think painted sidewalks are ok because Japanese cities do it, whilst ignoring the other policies Japan has.
I seen people park in the police station parking lot to eat at the restaurant next door, until a cop basically comes out to tell him you can’t park there. I think they should just tow the car and if the owner comes asking hand him the ticket.
I guess this has more to do with separating scooter and car traffic, especially when turning right… but this is a design I came up with.
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To turn right, cars in the right-most lane first yields to scooters and then crosses the dashed area well before arriving at the intersection. Scooters in the scooter lane also changes lanes here.
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… and then both cars and scooters turning right will arrive at a dedicated right-turn only lane, which hugs the right side of the road.
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Thicker separation area between scooter lane and parking spots, to prevent opened doors from hitting scooters (marked by white diagonal “keep clear” lines).
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Only permit two scooters to ride side-by-side in one car lane (passing through cars still allowed). Small mid-lane lines to be painted down the center of shared car and scooter lanes, to separate scooters that are riding side-by-side.
(Suggestions 1-3 above are already currently done in some countries with success.)
Now who do I need to send this design to for it to get implemented? @audreyt can you pass this along to your friends at the Ministry of Transportation? 
Yep, there is one giant corner near my house, the scooters seem to speed up and lean into it. Just a game for them.
The trucks slow down but only to second gear.
The road designers here are pathetic.
drake meme: making actual curbs : not convenient
Running over mother and baby because they got in your blindspot: very convenient!
The best looking thing about that area will be the new ‘sidewalks’. So grey , drab, dirty and ugly. Couldn’t pay me to live in a place like that anymore (well you could but it would be mucho dinero).
From my memory they didn’t teach pedestrians have the right of way when I was doing the scooter driving test. Maybe couple of minutes at most. So I think a lot of drivers don’t fully get the concept apart from not caring. Society here is often grabbing what you can get bwfore somebody else. There is no guilt involved in that unless there’s loss of face involved. Hard to lose face behind a helmet visor or tinted windows.
You’re supposed to already know that before arriving for your test. It’s in the test questions study guide (along with everything else you need to know).
It already doesn’t work 
Haha well it’s not fool-proof, but better than the current solution which is to make cars turn into the scooter lane at the last minute before turning right, and blocking the scooters that want to go straight.
They should add a well padded robot pedestrian to the minigolf course they use for the test!
Why aren’t they testing on the street? They can’t make it, too bad.
Some more news from the past day.
Older guy runs a red light, almost hits some kids the on crosswalk, ends up hitting a car.
A guy on scooter turning left yields for pedestrian standing near crosswalk, pedestrian waves to let him know that she isn’t going to cross the street and then a car rear ends the scooter.
I’ve gone through the occasional light that I’d rather stop for because I didn’t trust the car behind to not hit me 
I think that’s being considered.