>   I only realised why when I found out that the sidewalk stopped about 100
> yards from the house and the rest of the journey was meant walking next to
> busy roads on grass verges....


You'd like my town.  They recently went through and put wheelchair ramps on
all the corners.  Of course we still have the telephone poles in the middle
of the sidewalk, and worse, making the sidewalks largely unusable by
wheelchairs (where we have sidewalks at all) but we DO have the federally
required ramps!
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