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Commissioners order plan to reduce sidewalk backlog after resident appeals; department reports one crew for countywide repairs
Summary
A Miami-Dade resident who said sidewalks near her home are unsafe urged the committee to act; commissioners directed the transportation department to identify funding and staffing to reduce a multi-year backlog.
A Miami-Dade resident who said sidewalks near her home are unsafe urged the committee to act; commissioners responded by directing the county's transportation department to identify funding and staffing to reduce a multi-year backlog.
During the committee's reasonable-opportunity public comment, Norma Busto described two years of disrepair in her neighborhood and said the county's case on the issue showed as "closed" online despite ongoing hazards. "It is so dangerous. It's lopsided and it's high," Busto said, adding that elderly neighbors with walkers cannot safely use the sidewalk.
Joseph Hernandez, interim director of the Department of Transportation and Public Works, told the…
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