• The town has hardly any sidewalks.
• The few sidewalks that exist are generally blocked with garbage cans, shrubbery, etc. (Many carefully shave their lawns every week to within an inch of their lives, yet let their bushes grow for years several feet across public property.) When the shoulders are the only place to walk, garbage is often carefully placed next to shrubbery (grown to the edge of the street) so there is no place to walk around except into the street.
• Often cars are parked in the shoulders instead of in driveways or garages (or sometimes in addition to; the number of cars in this country exceeds the number of people [not just the number of drivers], in spite of the fact that most cars can hold @ least 6 people).

  garage |gəˈrä zh; -ˈräj| noun
  1 a building or shed for housing a motor vehicle or vehicles.

  Some people will even double park their cars in the half-empty parking lot at the gym, to avoid walking a few extra yards to the place where they exercise.
• Mailboxes are at the edge of the road; many people pick up their mail without getting out of their cars. This is the only place I have seen (including city, country, and suburb) where it is farther from your front door to your mailbox than it is to your next-door neighbor.
• Where there are no sidewalks, also no curbs, so stop signs and mailboxes have frequently been run over, and telephone poles run into. I know from experience that it's a combination of bad weather, accidents, drunks, and vandals. Baseball bats are apparently easy to use from car windows, but I don't know how (chain-saw?) they cut one stop sign to shreds. I carefully placed my mailbox where it was impossible to run over; they apparently had to get out of their car to pull it out of the ground. (I now have a P.O. box.)
• Few street lights on side roads. (Mine, a normal through street, has exactly 2, a mile apart.)
• The few sidewalks that existed on campus were paved over with asphalt and had lines painted down the middle to make them look like little streets. Maintenance people often drive on them (not just those golf-cart like vehicles, actual cars). All the pedestrian crosswalk signs were replaced with "bike path" signs. (Apparently "cyclist" has become a euphemism for "pedestrian". There is a narrow "mall" area between the main buildings, away from the roads, where one can walk. It has a highly advertised and very expensive decorative fountain that would be put to shame by any in the smallest European towns.)
• Most cars will stop for you at crosswalks, but some just slow down (at the last moment), or swerve around you into the opposite lane without slowing down, or keep right on going and honk, or occasionally hit you. (A pedestrian was recently killed on campus at an intersection by a driver who claimed she couldn't see the stop sign because the sun blinded her, and got off scott free. Apparently it is legal to keep driving when you can't see where you're going, even into an intersection.) However, @ least 2 crosswalks now also have stop signs. (I guess motorists are reluctant to break 3 laws simultaneously.)
• I don't know the driving laws in other countries, but in this one minors are allowed to drive at age 16.
• Here some parents drive their children to the school bus stop. Then they all just sit and wait in the car. (Why they don't just keep on driving to the school is beyond me.)
• The dictionary defines "pedestrian" as
  • Undistinguished; ordinary
  • COMMONPLACE, UNIMAGINATIVE
  • See Synonyms at dull
  (However, this was dated at 1716. I guess this is progress.)

Looks like this has become a problem almost everywhere.

But maybe it's beginning to change.

If mufflers are required by law, why do cars have sub-woofers?