Virginia-Highland Resident Tackles City's Broken Sidewalks Problem
Georgia Tech professor gets grant to create database of Atlanta streets.
Take a walk on a number of streets in Virginia-Highland, and you'll notice the deplorable condition and dangers they pose to pedestrians and joggers, dads pushing strollers or those with physical handicaps. The neighborhood's sidewalk problem — chronicled last year in a Virginia-Highland—Druid Hills Patch special report — isn't lost on Randall Guensler, who lives in the community and is a professor at Georgia Tech in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Guensler secured a $400,000, two-year grant from the Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center at the University of Florida and the U.S. Department of Transportation to create a database of Atlanta's sidewalk infrastructure and physical…
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FamilyOfFour
8:43 am on Saturday, February 23, 2013
I know! Typical... You don't need anything but your own two eyes. You could of even gotten community service kids to do it in excel! more ›