They aren't movers and shakers. They appear as stationary objects as motorists speed by. That doesn't mean people of all stripes and sizes shouldn't want sidewalks. A city that lacks sidewalks is lacking a lot of the connections that make communities whole. A city that lacks sidewalks communicates with the screeching of wheels and the blurting of horns.
Rice is an ardent advocate of pedestrian issues.
She also advocates traffic-calming strategies to get residential traffic to slow down. Now she needs support. The purpose of the public meeting on sidewalks was to set in motion applications for federal transportation dollars for the kind of transport that needs no engine. The sidewalk plan aired there would be modest by most standards but monumental by Waco standards. It would add 360 miles to the city's current 420 miles of sidewalk, based on the location of schools, parks, bus routes and existing sidewalks.