F40 Disparate Approaches to Maintaining Roads and Sidewalks: An Interview Study of 16 U.S. Cities

Disparate Approaches to Maintaining Roads and Sidewalks: An Interview Study of 16 U.S. Cities


Year Published: 2022

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

External Link: https://trid.trb.org/view/1945979


America’s “crumbling roads” currently headline the infrastructure zeitgeist, but deteriorating sidewalks are also in desperate need. This research instead seeks to uncover the similarities and differences in how American cities treat their road versus sidewalk networks by asking: are these two indispensable assets of daily urban public life repaired, maintained, and funded disparately?