A lot of roads in the US seem to be designed to be completely oblivious to pedestrians. Some years ago I was doing contracting work there and the company had put me up in the nearest hotel to the office. I could see the building from the hotel but there was physically no way to walk there without risking death due to speeding cars and trucks. I tried to find a non-suicidal route one day and it took something like half an hour cutting through properties and at one point pushing through undergrowth to get there.

Eventually I found out that there was a bus used by cleaning and maintenance staff that I could catch if I walked several blocks in the opposite direction and that stopped in front of the office building. I was the only non-minimum-wage person I ever saw on the bus the entire time I caught it.