Is the city going out of its way to limit walkability?

It's one thing that Kyle has been deliberately developed to discourage walkability, but when these types of sidewalk barriers are permitted to remain in neighborhoods where walkability is desired for extended periods of time, it borders on the criminal.

This is near the Overlook Apartments, a development for "active seniors," many of whom have recently complained about the lack of transportation options. Now a literal roadblock exists to limit another one of those options, the option to simply walk along the neighborhood's sidewalks.

OK, I know people will say "Why don't you just walk around it?" But that means you advocate a policy of allowing vehicular traffic to block sidewalks and forcing pedestrian traffic to abandon the sidewalks for the streets. Yeah, that really makes for a livable city.

We can do better than this. Kyle should represent a standard higher than this. We should provide for and, even more important, permit walkable neighborhoods.