@ostout @TheWarOnCars That's incredibly dependent on culture and infrastructure, and for majority of the US would put the cart before the horse.
Many parts of the US are so car centric that if people are willing to walk in the first place, the road design would straight up kill them if the sidewalk weren't there (and sometimes that doesn't even protect them!). Removing signage and lights is a great idea on smaller streets, and even some larger streets if the rest of the infrastructure makes it clear that cars are guests, but when your city has plenty of stroads I think traffic calming and road diets are a better approach to start. Currently in many cities people don't feel safe walking or biking. Removing signals and signage would turn the car dependent areas into a straight up meat grinder with no way to cross a six lane stroad short of playing IRL Frogger.