#sidewalks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sidewalks, aggregated by home.social.
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One thing I love about Saint Paul: they put poetry on sidewalks. Here's some in my neighborhood. Art + infrastructure!
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One thing I love about Saint Paul: they put poetry on sidewalks. Here's some in my neighborhood. Art + infrastructure!
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Garden District residents seek answers after Pima Street safety project stalls https://www.allforgardening.com/1826893/garden-district-residents-seek-answers-after-pima-street-safety-project-stalls/ #garden #GardenDistrict #Roads #Sidewalks #streetlights #streets #TransportationAndMobility
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Garden District residents seek answers after Pima Street safety project stalls https://www.allforgardening.com/1826893/garden-district-residents-seek-answers-after-pima-street-safety-project-stalls/ #garden #GardenDistrict #Roads #Sidewalks #streetlights #streets #TransportationAndMobility
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Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource
Michael Pollack
(Harvard University Press, 2026)
"An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.
Public infrastructure is as essential to our communities as it is easily overlooked. A case in point is the humble sidewalk: constantly taken for granted, yet linked to nearly every pressing issue of local governance in urban, suburban, and even rural areas. From commerce, taxes, and property rights to policing, homelessness, and surveillance; from free speech and socioeconomic equity to public health and climate resilience—sidewalks, surprisingly, are at the core of numerous major debates.
Sidewalk Nation offers a vivid travelogue spanning more than a dozen cities and towns across the United States to show how diverse communities are grappling with big challenges. Some are prosaic, if critical: How do we ensure that sidewalks facilitate mobility for disabled people? Whose job is it to clear snow from public space? And some touch on the most profound issues in law, including our rights under the First and Fourth Amendments. While traversing the country, Michael Pollack provides expert insight into the property, tax, and zoning laws that shape sidewalk management and land use more broadly. Offering a holistic vision for improving a vital resource, Pollack argues for reforms to ensure that local governments have both the obligation and the funding needed to give due attention to sidewalks and all that they offer.
Whether elected officials, civil servants, engineers, developers, or voters, everyone has a stake in the question of where sidewalks should be placed and how they should be used. Indeed, as Sidewalk Nation makes clear, what’s under our feet should be at the front of our minds..."
https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Sidewalk_Nation/iQvUEQAAQBAJ
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Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource
Michael Pollack
(Harvard University Press, 2026)
"An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.
Public infrastructure is as essential to our communities as it is easily overlooked. A case in point is the humble sidewalk: constantly taken for granted, yet linked to nearly every pressing issue of local governance in urban, suburban, and even rural areas. From commerce, taxes, and property rights to policing, homelessness, and surveillance; from free speech and socioeconomic equity to public health and climate resilience—sidewalks, surprisingly, are at the core of numerous major debates.
Sidewalk Nation offers a vivid travelogue spanning more than a dozen cities and towns across the United States to show how diverse communities are grappling with big challenges. Some are prosaic, if critical: How do we ensure that sidewalks facilitate mobility for disabled people? Whose job is it to clear snow from public space? And some touch on the most profound issues in law, including our rights under the First and Fourth Amendments. While traversing the country, Michael Pollack provides expert insight into the property, tax, and zoning laws that shape sidewalk management and land use more broadly. Offering a holistic vision for improving a vital resource, Pollack argues for reforms to ensure that local governments have both the obligation and the funding needed to give due attention to sidewalks and all that they offer.
Whether elected officials, civil servants, engineers, developers, or voters, everyone has a stake in the question of where sidewalks should be placed and how they should be used. Indeed, as Sidewalk Nation makes clear, what’s under our feet should be at the front of our minds..."
https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Sidewalk_Nation/iQvUEQAAQBAJ
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#Cyclists Have Begun to Ignore the Ban on Riding on #Sidewalks More Frequently: The #Police Remain Vigilant
Ensuring the safety of vulnerable road users is becoming a priority task for the law enforcement agencies of #Bavaria due to the rapid growth in the popularity of individual mobile transport. The #Gauting police checked 52 cyclists and e-scooter drivers in three municipalities of the region.
#Read More👇👇👇
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🟣🚶♀️NEW🚶♀️🟣
On Thursday, June 25, at 6:30pm, MCDOT will hold a virtual public hearing to discuss the proposed sidewalk installations for the #PurpleLineMD Manchester Place station.
⭐Please register online to attend
▶️ https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/news/virtual-public-hearing-purple-line-sidewalk-proposal-manchester-place-station-silver-spring-held-thursday-june-25
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The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) has released a series of updated design guidelines for infrastructure construction projects. The new standards will apply to new construction projects, as well as infrastructure that is reconstructed or replaced.
▶️ https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/department-transportation/about-mcdot/divisions/division-transportation-engineering-dte/design-standards
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🚧✨ Progress in Rock Creek Manor! ✨🚧
Check out these before, during, and after images from the Rock Creek Manor Phase II Sidewalk Construction project. #montgomerycountymd #visionzero #sidewalks #pedestriansafety -
🚧ICYMI🚧
MCDOT is rolling out its spring sidewalk construction schedule, with approximately 10 miles of new sidewalks in the active planning or construction phase across #MontgomeryCoMD.
🚧🔗 https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/news/spring-construction-underway-montgomery-countys-annual-sidewalk-programs-0
#VisionZeroMC #mdroads #mdtraffic #sidewalks #MDOT #sidewalks #MCPS #walking -
🚧ICYMI🚧
MCDOT is rolling out its spring sidewalk construction schedule, with approximately 10 miles of new sidewalks in the active planning or construction phase across #MontgomeryCoMD.
🚧🔗 https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/news/spring-construction-underway-montgomery-countys-annual-sidewalk-programs-0
#VisionZeroMC #mdroads #mdtraffic #sidewalks #MDOT #sidewalks #MCPS #walking -
Manila is pretty hostile to pedestrians, but still even when the pavement is busted and dusted (or more often, doesn't exist at all) we walk! #manila #mandaluyong #pedestrians #pavement #sidewalks
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Manila is pretty hostile to pedestrians, but still even when the pavement is busted and dusted (or more often, doesn't exist at all) we walk! #manila #mandaluyong #pedestrians #pavement #sidewalks
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If you missed the Purple Line BiPPA Sidewalk Proposal meeting earlier this week, you're encouraged to provide feedback via the online comment form or by email to the Project Manager at [email protected] by Thursday, May 14, 2026.
▶️ https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=-bEBbuWxc0Csl3eAaaCtZLPFvHo8Lq1DoHSGxMGwscdUMDhLSkJVT0IxOTJQNEtNNU9FTDI5SFlJNS4u&route=shorturl #mta #sidewalks #walking #montgomerycountymd #maryland #purplelinemd #transportation #transit #futuretransit -
#Sidewalks were built for one purpose in the 1800s, then changed mission in the 20th century. They declined in popularity in one period, only to become popular again… along with a new thing, urban trails. At each turn, gov’t played a big role. http://www.fromthegovt.com/sidewalks-and-trails/ #walkable
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Ever heard of Directional Requirements for biking on sidewalks? We were chatting about that topic with a local attorney, which led to today’s post. Californians, note Spriesterbach v. Holland cited in this post: https://bikemonterey.org/directional-requirements-for-bicycle-riding-on-sidewalks.html
#biking #cycling #BikeCalifornia #MontereyCounty #TrafficLaws #BikeLaws #BikingOnSidewalks #sidewalks
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Ever heard of Directional Requirements for biking on sidewalks? We were chatting about that topic with a local attorney, which led to today’s post. Californians, note Spriesterbach v. Holland cited in this post: https://bikemonterey.org/directional-requirements-for-bicycle-riding-on-sidewalks.html
#biking #cycling #BikeCalifornia #MontereyCounty #TrafficLaws #BikeLaws #BikingOnSidewalks #sidewalks
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Letra de la canción “Sidewalks” de The Weeknd
#TheWeeknd #Sidewalks
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The #depaving groups reclaiming #UrbanGreenSpace
by Jennifer Cole, Mar 21, 2026
"It took two years, but finally, in 2025, Jean Norwood’s dream of turning the parking lot at #MorningstarMissionary Baptist Church in #PortlandOR, into a play area for children and a #FoodGarden with #FruitTrees came true. Working with Norwood to bring her vision to reality was #DepavePortland. Since 2008, the Portland-based nonprofit has been digging up paved surfaces, freeing the trapped soil underneath and #regreening the newly reclaimed space.
"There are an estimated 2 billion parking places in the United States, an area comparable in size to the entire state of Vermont. That figure does not include #sidewalks, schoolyards or other paved surfaces, which, along with #CarParks, trap heat, intensifying the urban #HeatIsland effect in some cases by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit compared with surrounding areas. '#Asphalt makes your space hotter in the summertime, and colder in the wintertime,' Norwood says.
"When asphalt is removed and the soil beneath is exposed, those dynamics begin to reverse. The ground can absorb and store #carbon, and #rainwater is able to filter into the soil rather than running off into sewers. #Trees and #gardens can be planted that provide shade and a #habitat is created for #birds, #insects and other #wildlife.
"This was Norwood’s dream for the parking lot at Morningstar. Going from concrete to fruit trees, though, takes patience. 'First,' she says, 'there was about six months of planning and submitting requests for permitting.'
"Depave guided Norwood and the church through all of it, even seeking out grants to help cover costs. When it came time to depave the parking lot, volunteers recruited by Depave used crowbars, shovels, bare hands and wheelbarrows to lift out the pavement and daylight the soil beneath. Depave also worked with Morningstar on finding contractors to build the play area and raised #GardenBeds, and on choosing the plants for each newly #regreened space. It’s a process Depave has perfected at more than 82 sites across Portland."
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-depaving-groups-reclaiming-urban-green-space/
#SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenCities #GreenerCities #RewildingCities #MoreParksLessParkingLots #WildlifeHabitat
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The #depaving groups reclaiming #UrbanGreenSpace
by Jennifer Cole, Mar 21, 2026
"It took two years, but finally, in 2025, Jean Norwood’s dream of turning the parking lot at #MorningstarMissionary Baptist Church in #PortlandOR, into a play area for children and a #FoodGarden with #FruitTrees came true. Working with Norwood to bring her vision to reality was #DepavePortland. Since 2008, the Portland-based nonprofit has been digging up paved surfaces, freeing the trapped soil underneath and #regreening the newly reclaimed space.
"There are an estimated 2 billion parking places in the United States, an area comparable in size to the entire state of Vermont. That figure does not include #sidewalks, schoolyards or other paved surfaces, which, along with #CarParks, trap heat, intensifying the urban #HeatIsland effect in some cases by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit compared with surrounding areas. '#Asphalt makes your space hotter in the summertime, and colder in the wintertime,' Norwood says.
"When asphalt is removed and the soil beneath is exposed, those dynamics begin to reverse. The ground can absorb and store #carbon, and #rainwater is able to filter into the soil rather than running off into sewers. #Trees and #gardens can be planted that provide shade and a #habitat is created for #birds, #insects and other #wildlife.
"This was Norwood’s dream for the parking lot at Morningstar. Going from concrete to fruit trees, though, takes patience. 'First,' she says, 'there was about six months of planning and submitting requests for permitting.'
"Depave guided Norwood and the church through all of it, even seeking out grants to help cover costs. When it came time to depave the parking lot, volunteers recruited by Depave used crowbars, shovels, bare hands and wheelbarrows to lift out the pavement and daylight the soil beneath. Depave also worked with Morningstar on finding contractors to build the play area and raised #GardenBeds, and on choosing the plants for each newly #regreened space. It’s a process Depave has perfected at more than 82 sites across Portland."
https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-depaving-groups-reclaiming-urban-green-space/
#SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenCities #GreenerCities #RewildingCities #MoreParksLessParkingLots #WildlifeHabitat
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Découvrez les paroles de la chanson “Sidewalks” de The Weeknd
#TheWeeknd #Sidewalks
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🌞 Nine-city study finds richer neighborhoods get more sidewalk shade
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-city-richer-neighborhoods-sidewalk.html
#urban #cities #planning #shade #trees #horticulture #sidewalks #inequality
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🌞 Nine-city study finds richer neighborhoods get more sidewalk shade
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-city-richer-neighborhoods-sidewalk.html
#urban #cities #planning #shade #trees #horticulture #sidewalks #inequality
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City Council adopted an amendment to the sidewalk repair ordinance, formalizing a program that allows the City to complete repairs on behalf of property owners while offering financial assistance and replacing property liens with a standard collections process. Karin K. Jensen shares details. https://alamedapost.com/news/council-updates-sidewalk-repair-policy-approves-project-burger-lease/
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City Council adopted an amendment to the sidewalk repair ordinance, formalizing a program that allows the City to complete repairs on behalf of property owners while offering financial assistance and replacing property liens with a standard collections process. Karin K. Jensen shares details. https://alamedapost.com/news/council-updates-sidewalk-repair-policy-approves-project-burger-lease/
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Hype for the Future 108D → Modern Suburban Developments in Smaller Communities
Introduction Though suburban sprawl often dominates in the modern outskirts of major and even minor cities, smaller communities, often of fewer than twenty-five thousand (25,000) residents, may have a more comprehensive sidewalk or related infrastructural network, even in the suburban zones. Within such suburban zones, however, the sidewalk network is often identified in the abstract as substandard, as with the sidewalk networks along major highways in modern suburban […] -
Hype for the Future 108D → Modern Suburban Developments in Smaller Communities
Introduction Though suburban sprawl often dominates in the modern outskirts of major and even minor cities, smaller communities, often of fewer than twenty-five thousand (25,000) residents, may have a more comprehensive sidewalk or related infrastructural network, even in the suburban zones. Within such suburban zones, however, the sidewalk network is often identified in the abstract as substandard, as with the sidewalk networks along major highways in modern suburban […] -
Ver la letra de la canción “Sidewalks” de The Weeknd
#TheWeeknd #Sidewalks
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Scopri il testo della canzone “Sidewalks” di The Weeknd
#TheWeeknd #Sidewalks
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Dear Friends,
It's not too late to shovel snow from sidewalk in front of the business even though it fell two days ago. Better late than never for the benefit of pedestrians and people on wheels! But, for goodness sakes, take it easy and don't overexert yourself. We spoke, he said he was okay.ESM
#LongIsland #NewYork #NYwx
#snow #fog #sidewalks
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Dear Friends,
It's not too late to shovel snow from sidewalk in front of the business even though it fell two days ago. Better late than never for the benefit of pedestrians and people on wheels! But, for goodness sakes, take it easy and don't overexert yourself. We spoke, he said he was okay.ESM
#LongIsland #NewYork #NYwx
#snow #fog #sidewalks
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"...Hale, an avid city cyclist, has personally painted 14 crosswalks since May, including one at the intersection of South New Hampshire Avenue and 4th Street where a 9-year-old boy was hit and killed.
"I think we want a city that responds to the needs of its people in that sense and prioritizes these things as the way forward," said Hale. "I don't feel L.A. is doing that effectively."..."
#BikeTooter #crosswalks #sidewalks #pedestrians #infrastructure #protests #CivilDisobedience
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"...Hale, an avid city cyclist, has personally painted 14 crosswalks since May, including one at the intersection of South New Hampshire Avenue and 4th Street where a 9-year-old boy was hit and killed.
"I think we want a city that responds to the needs of its people in that sense and prioritizes these things as the way forward," said Hale. "I don't feel L.A. is doing that effectively."..."
#BikeTooter #crosswalks #sidewalks #pedestrians #infrastructure #protests #CivilDisobedience
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Are #propertyowners in #Ohio liable for #injuries on #snow and #icecovered #sidewalks?
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Are #propertyowners in #Ohio liable for #injuries on #snow and #icecovered #sidewalks?
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Are #propertyowners in #Ohio liable for #injuries on #snow and #icecovered #sidewalks?
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Are #propertyowners in #Ohio liable for #injuries on #snow and #icecovered #sidewalks?
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Just a city tree (Sketch of the Week for Week 46 of 2025) https://www.davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index.php/2025/11/sketch-of-the-week-city-tree/ #art #cities #cityscapes #drawing #newsD #newsF #sidewalks #sketch #sketching #trees
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Just a city tree (Sketch of the Week for Week 46 of 2025) https://www.davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index.php/2025/11/sketch-of-the-week-city-tree/ #art #cities #cityscapes #drawing #newsD #newsF #sidewalks #sketch #sketching #trees
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@ncoca Welcome to the pavements/sidewalks of Malaysia! Malaysia's development overly focuses on roads, to the extent that they forget pedestrians have legs and lives too, and need to walk. Maybe the politicians are enjoying their wealthy life in moneyland while we are all in poverty, and we are blamed for our poverty.
#malaysia #infrastructure #urbanplanning #pedestrians #sidewalks #poverty #injustice #governance #sabah #advocacy #roadsafety #development #walkability
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MCDOT's Sidewalk Program ensures that curb ramps county-wide are ADA-compliant. If there is a curb-ramp in need of repair, please feel free to visit the Sidewalk Program website, where you can request new curb-ramps or repairs to existing ones.
💻Program Website 🔗 https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-dte/sidewalk/index.html #montgomerycountymd #maryland #sidewalks -
#Sidewalks were built for one purpose in the 1800s, then changed mission in the 20th century. They declined in popularity in one period, only to become popular again… along with a new thing, urban trails. At each turn, gov’t played a big role. http://www.fromthegovt.com/sidewalks-and-trails/ #walkable
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@jarek @the5thColumnist @mayintoronto Willowdale has so many streets without sidewalk. Some of those street are even leading to a park!
And then in Don Valley North within Bayview Village neighborhood, found 2 instances of sidewalk stopping mid street. Can only imagine residents refusing them. How can they be allowed to refuse I don’t know.
#topoli #sidewalks #walkto #donvalleynorth #bayviewvillage #willowdale
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Ask Wilson why 26.6/day homeless camps are swept like we are trash when Wheeler was sweeping 20/day and where are people supposed to go when they only have about 1/3 of the people a place???
#PDX #Portland #Illegal2BHomeless just like #Trump now. Same rules against #homeless people from #sidewalks to the #federal government.
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Wonder if a Mysstic #Escape Room can save me from #religious #rampant #parking #impunity on #sidewalks, in front of #church and in #crosswalks #parkslope #brooklyn #airquality #climatechange #climate #cars
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Benjamin Wittes, who's been told by authorities that writing or drawing with chalk on sidewalks in DC is illegal, features a photo from a DC sidewalk (see below).
https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/the-chalk-crime-revolution-spreads
And Jonathan Cohn reports from Miami,
"A man walking across an intersection in Florida was arrested over the weekend.
His alleged crime? Felonious use of pink sidewalk chalk."
#dictators #authoritarianism #FreeSpeech #sidewalks #chalk #DeSantis
/1https://www.thebulwark.com/p/desantis-declares-war-on-woke-sidewalk-chalk-pulse-nightclub-newton
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It would be so nice if #India (and other developing economies) copies the #EU cities (e.g. #Paris, #Barcelona) with its people-friendly qualities instead of the car-friendly shit.
#walk #bike #bus #train #sidewalks #pedestrians #climatechange #heatwave #drought #flood #hurricanes #justice #humanrights #equity
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I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
https://mayastein.com/campaigns/view-email/8IlGTYKuxyvQy0hmK3OHEjfOMRdy2x2AQlLIiBWo_WjX5YT_wuZJSPssXttWWIV6xb73h-sYS44F_Np43GkGoPdNtqYuTr-RFcCSGIkjWLBaFmrbLZMO-R9wwYNgTaFXQpcIxhXV9tzTDSlPmDc2a1mWXx1z3hTkNndNFw==?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=68aca675e2f0fd766918dc26&ss_email_id=68ae19d5d2547058f5c7222c&#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #transportation #TranspoPoems #ElectedOfficials #infrastructure #sidewalks #protest #bees #MayaStein #haibun #Basho #MatsuoBasho #haiku
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Deteriorating sidewalks in Indianapolis neighborhood spark community outcry
"The sidewalks along Nowland Avenue are in particularly poor shape, according to locals, who describe the scene as “really bad,” with many curbs missing and weeds growing uncontrollably."
The city's response is that "Repairs are addressed as funding becomes available" which I suspect means "Repairs are not addressed."