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Urbanism

Dallas: The City That Hates Pedestrians, Pt. 2

The two words any downtown ambulator has learned to fear: Sidewalk Closed.
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This is near the intersection of Harwood and Ross downtown, where the Trammell Crow Center is renovating and, across the street, building a hotel, apartments, and assorted amenities. Workers were kind enough to build a scaffolding-and-plywood passage over the sidewalk, something lacking in last week’s edition of “Dallas: The City That Hates Pedestrians.” Puzzlingly, there is a “sidewalk closed” sign, as well as red caution tape suggesting that pedestrians should not make use of said tunnel. Progress?


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