• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 hours ago

    It is strange to me, that sidewalks aren’t public property and are managed (and cleaned) like the streets in other countries 😄

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      They are public property and designed and built by the municipalities in many places. The cities and towns just prefer to offload the cleaning part to who every lives in front of a section of sidewalk.

      Let’s call it “Civic Duty” and your chance to do something nice and beneficial for your neighborhood.

    • FridaySteve@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      In Brazil the property owner is responsible for everything up to the edge of the road in a lot of places, including building and maintaining sidewalks…they go to shit and nobody fixes them lol

      • zaki_ft@lemmings.world
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        6 hours ago

        In the US, it’s the opposite.

        People typically don’t own land a few feet in between them and the street.