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Project Sidewalk Featured as 'Tweet of the Week' in UW Today

Jon E. Froehlich

By Jon E. Froehlich

Sep 06, 2019

Screen capture of a tweet that says: "Yikes, an impenetrable double pole obstacle! Help us find and validate sidewalk accessibility barriers like these using your web browser"
Project Sidewalk was featured as the 'Tweet of the Week' in the UW Today email. Here's the tweet.

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