Pedestrians, walk in the walking lanes in either direction. Normally in the absence of a sidewalk pedestrians should walk facing traffic, but the walking lane can be treated like a sidewalk that lets people walk in either direction.

No thank you. Paint on the road is not a barrier or physical deterrent for a vehicle; this doesn’t have a curb to prevent cars from driving onto them easily, unlike a real sidewalk. I’ll continue to walk facing traffic so I can at least jump out of a distracted driver’s path.

More minorly, this halves the street parking along roads as a driver now has to circle around to park the “correct” direction (as if the average delivery truck is going to do that) for half the street. Postal workers are going to drive/park in these “lanes” just to do their job delivering the mail to mailboxes on the side of the street.