Jenkintown Borough Council is scheduled to meet tonight. I plan on attending and reading a prepared statement about our sidewalks. I would encourage you to attend, especially if you sympathetic to this cause. I will post this statement later this evening, after the completion of the meeting.

Dear Mr. Locke, Regarding your letter dated July 10, 2015 notifying us of our violation of Jenkintown ordinance that requires us to pay for the maintenance and repair of property that we do not own, I would again refer you to a letter that I sent you on May 4 of this year in which I clearly state that my family cannot afford to comply with this ordinance at any […]

More than two weeks ago, I wrote letters to our borough manager and my three (count them, three) of twelve(!) borough councilors explaining our situation. As of today, I haven’t received so much of an acknowledgement of receipt from any of them. Today, I sent my councilors this email (along with another copy of the letter): More than two weeks ago, I sent you the enclosed letter. As my elected […]

I just distributed this flyer to all my neighbors along the stretch of Runnymede that borough plans to reconstruct, but this issue applies to the entire borough. Indeed, it applies to the whole state. Please download, print, and distribute to your neighbors as well. Thanks for your support!

If you have just received a copy of the letter I have begun to distribute to the neighborhood, please first visit this link which goes into greater detail explaining why I believe this law must be changed. Please leave your comments at the end. Thank you.

Yes, there is federal money for sidewalks There are two pots of federal dollars currently available for Safe Routes to School programs and projects. The first pot is from the old transportation law (SAFETEA-LU), and does not require matching funds. This pot is still available in many states, find out about Pennsylvania here. The second pot of money is from the Transportation Alternatives Program, in the current transportation bill (MAP-21), and […]

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but you wouldn’t know it from the way Jenkintown funds sidewalk repair. I cannot be the only one in Jenkintown that thinks the way we (and many other towns in Pennsylvania) fund the repair of sidewalks and curbings borders on insanity. In our borough, homeowners are expected to bear full financial responsibility for the public right-of-way adjacent to their property right up to the […]