Headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 9/16/2026
George Wiebe reports:
Madison plans to build more sidewalks, shorten dangerous road crossings and steer safety investments toward underserved neighborhoods under its first comprehensive pedestrian plan in nearly three decades.
About two-thirds of Madison’s arterial and collector streets have sidewalks on both sides, according to Kevin Luecke, the city’s pedestrian and bicycle administrator. That leaves roughly 88 miles of missing sidewalk along those streets, a total the city hopes to reduce over the next 10 years.
Madison officials are poised to approve the first major update to the city’s Pedestrian Transportation Plan, adopted in 1997. The existing plan is “quite dated at this point,” Luecke said at a Board of Public Works meeting last week.
Related reading:
Why are people so angry over having to put in sidewalks? (Cyburbia)The surprising politics of sidewalks. (Popular Science, 4/10/2018)
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