Tokyo is surrounded by tons of this stuff
because the street is wide, traffic is fast and heavy, landscape is overwhelmingly just tarmac (exposed to wind, rain, snow, sun) etc
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I'd say (not there so I don't know) that that's probably because the vast majority of their business is drivers.
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If density was higher they'd accommodate pedestrians because they'd make up a higher portion of their customers.
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assuming that the density was pedestrian friendly and not towers-in-a-parking lot
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That would be hell, but I haven't seen *many* examples of this fortunately, even the more densely populated areas of LA are pretty walkable.
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I think the free market *tends* to fix this problem at high densities (though not every time obviously).
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