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Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D–Delaware) recently introduced the “Restoring Essential Public Access and Improving Resilient Infrastructure Act — known as simply as the “REPAIR Infrastructure” Act — which would reauthorize the federal Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods pilot program, and increase its funding to $15 billion, even as GOP-lead attacks on the current iteration of that program continue, writes Kea Wilson.
It’s Woodstock for NUMTOTs — minus the mud and free love.
Sidewalks are too often neglected, but there are ways for cities to step up and fix these essential public spaces.
Law Professor Michael Pollack on who manages, owns and feels ownership of sidewalks — “America’s most overlooked resource.”
