"Mr. President we cannot allow a Sidewalk Gap."
Posted on 03/31/2016 9:34:38 AM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told a crowd in North Carolina Tuesday that “only 49% of low-income neighborhoods have sidewalks” while more affluent areas have near 90%. In order to have a society where “everyone has a shot at the American Dream, than it’s imperative that we acknowledge these challenges.”
Foxx made the comments to the Charlotte Rotary Club where he discussed the ways that infrastructure should connect people to opportunity.
During his speech, Foxx referenced a map of Atlanta that showed areas of pedestrian and bicycle accidents. “The grey areas represent communities of concentrated poverty. This is representative of what’s occurring nationally, which is not surprising, because only 49% of low-income neighborhoods have sidewalks. In high-income areas the number is closer to 90%.”
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"Mr. President we cannot allow a Sidewalk Gap."
Now we need a federal program to build sidewalks.
Not a city program; not a call to the mayor.
Maybe we can have an entire federal department, the Department of Sidewalks, to handle the matter.
Sidewalks are part of the “American dream?”
Just what exactly do clowns like this think the American dream is?
The most affluent areas in California don’t want sidewalks. It reduces their property value.
Sidewalks are Raciss!!
Checked very carefully to make sure this wasn’t satire. Best I can tell it’s not. But still not sure.
A man can’t really swing if his sidewalks don’t fit properly....
I don’t have sidewalks, curbs or sewers. Drainage along the road is a ditch. Show me the money!
The sidewalks in the street
The concrete and the clay beneath my feet
Begins to crumble
But love will never die
Because we’ll see the mountains tumble
Before we say goodbye
What a great example of overreach to have the Federal government dictating about sidewalks.
We spent millions in my neighborhood to make sidewalks wheelchair friendly (no curbs). I haven’t seen one wheelchair yet but the skateboard punks sure like them.
What nonsense I live in a well to do suburb in WI, we fight sidewalks and streetlights.
Don’t mot inner cities have sidewalks?
I don’t have one. I don’t live is some rathole city either. I don’t want one.
Right next to the Ministry of Silly Walks....
unit 4+2
Mail-Order Sidewalks!
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