In my various travels around Austin on bike, I tend to use the sidewalks as my primary travel lanes. Unfortunately, not all sidewalks are "bike friendly" - there's the occasional unramped curb, or the sidewalk breaking up due to underlying tree roots, or even too narrow of a space to navigate due to intervening poles, fences, and shrubberies... or, worst of all, there's no sidewalk at all to speak of.
Sooo... I have the following idea:
Why not create a company that cooperates with city governments and land owners to fix up the sidewalks to where they become "bike-friendly", and, as a side effect, "wheelchair-friendly"?
One way I envision this, is to have a surveying crew that will go out and navigate the sidewalks in different neighborhoods with GPS equipment. Should they come across a trouble spot, they forward that spot's GPS coordinates back to the main office for further investigation. The office can then get a couple of bids from concrete companies to repair the problem; and then present those bids to the paying authority -- I'm just not sure if that authority would be the city government, or the landowner, or a mixture of both...
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