Wide multi-lane roads like North Main Street are extremely dangerous and should not be used anywhere you expect there to be pedestrians. The UK has some of the worlds least deadly roads, both per capita and per vehicle miles traveled. Almost nowhere in the entire country (at least as far as I’ve seen) will you find multi-lane roads. Pretty much every road is either a motorway (which are only for motor vehicles) or a narrow local road/street.

Most North American multi-lane roads, especially in RI, were originally widened so there could be a car lane and a streetcar lane, but when we abandoned the streetcars the extra lanes were kept, to be used by cars. This created more traffic, and made the roads unpleasant both for walking and driving. If you expect people to cross a road, making it multiple lanes in each direction pretty much guarantees people will die on it, and traffic engineers know this. These types of roads should not exist