Roads existed long before the motor vehicle did, the Romans were famous for them. And last I checked most people use roads to transport themselves, their not domain of empty cars driving themselves around.

In the civilised world, which the UK is part of, pedestrian have unlimited right of way and priority on all roads, except highways. Motor vehicles are guests, it just seems that drivers believe wrapping themselves in tons of metal gives them the right to bully and brutalise other road users with impunity.

> It seems that way to people projecting their hysterical delusions on everyone else.

Are you telling me I was having a hysterical delusion last week when a driver chased me down and deliberately used their car to smash me into the side of a lorry, hospitalising me for a week? If so, you should really tell my local police, because they need to release the guy that hit me.

> And, again, we all know that modern roads are for vehicles and not PEDESTRIANS, (since you pretend to need it spelled out). That's why we have sidewalks.

Again, in the civilised world pedestrians have universal rights to use the road, and can use pavements at their discretion. From your language it seems you’ve yet to visit.

Who were they for then?

Recall the context, please:

    the first footbridge over a road in Britain

a country with a network of roads 2,000+ years old.

And who were those roads for? Armies to march on.

You know, armies of people.

Everyone forgets the horse and its carts and carriages.

Great. Stick to the ancient roads while you're walking, and you should be fine.

If you're not comfortable with an answer to a question that you posed then perhaps you need to be more careful with your ill thought rhetoricals.

Most of them are. Horses came much later.