Protesters demand more and better sidewalks.
One Texas Center is home to the City's Public Works and Transportation Dept. , which is responsible for what fitful efforts the city makes to equip all neighborhoods with adequate pedestrian facilities. The only places where sidewalks are guaranteed by public funds and effort are around schools, where they're paid for by the Child Safety Fund in partnership with school districts, and to and from bus stops, where they're built and funded by Capital Metro . And if our civic religion holds that we should be a walkable community, well, it's time for the city to tithe. But members of that panel have been, shall we say, underwhelmed at the city's alacrity in implementing the Task Force recommendations. The neighbors point out that, despite decades of standard practice, there's nothing in the Land Development Code that requires sidewalk maintenance to be the responsibility of property owners.