The Sideways Development of Sidewalks

Sidewalks are ”the most bizarrely funded thing ever,” said Emiko Atherton, Vice President for Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America.

I was driving south down Stribling Avenue recently, a narrow, sidewalk-less city street with a considerable amount of two-way vehicle and pedestrian traffic, and an older woman using a cane was walking toward me on the other side of the street. A car was coming up behind her, moving pretty fast, and to my surprise, she wheeled around and stuck out her c…