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Project Sidewalk Featured in Seattle Met Magazine

Jon E. Froehlich

By Jon E. Froehlich

Aug 01, 2019

Project Sidewalk art created by Irene Rinaldi

Project Sidewalk featured in the August issue of the Seattle Met in an article entitled "Can Project Sidewalk Use Crowdsourcing to Help Seattleites Get Around?". The article describes Project Sidewalk and includes perspectives from pedestrian activist Douglas MacDonald (a former WA State Transportation Secretary) and Ross McFarland, the SDOT Sidewalk Repair Program Manager.

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