MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Residents in a Parrish neighborhood say more sidewalks are needed for kids walking to school.
What You Need To Know • Residents want improved sidewalks on Old Tampa Road between U.S. 301 and Fort Hamer Road • They say students from Williams Elementary School are walking along the busy road • Manatee officials say there are records of requests in the past to get more sidewalks on Old Tampa Road but the projects never moved forward
Dion Schaal says completed sidewalks have been needed for years on Old Tampa Road between U.S. 301 and Fort Hamer Road.
Schaal says the sidewalks that are there come to a dead end or are in bad shape, which means pedestrians often have to cross Old Tampa Road or walk alongside it.
“Unless you want to hop barbed wire at the dead end