Originally Posted by
tandempower
But I think there are other people, a lot I think, who feel a lot more comfortable and happy to walk/bike in corridors where bike paths and sidewalks are aesthetically oriented toward pedestrians and cyclists. It's like they don't want to be aesthetically marginalized by being a cyclist or pedestrian in what they see as car-territory.
Along the line of aesthetics, when I was figuring out my route to work I wound up taking a major car corridor and one of the first things that really struck me was how ugly it was. I have driven that corridor numerous times before, but it was only once I was on my bike I that the ugliness of it really struck me (mind you, being at the end of my stamina probably didn't help my opinion much). By contrast, the bike paths are much more aesthetically pleasing.