Who cares about pedestrians?

Here, in Germany, cycle-ways on both sides of this road, are protected by safety barriers.

Church Road, Sevington.

This is the most absurd situation imaginable; a bridge of which one half is built to a different specification to the other; not only are pedestrians supposed to walk into a brick wall, but if they continue on ahead, in the road hemmed in by a high brick wall, then they become extremely vulnerable.    Who cares about the plight of pedestrians (and cyclists)?  They obviously don't.