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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Single mom of two toddlers who lives in in Randolph Hills needs to shovel her own sidewalk.

Retired, elderly woman aging in place in Chevy Chase View needs to shovel own sidewalk.

Young 30-something childless couple who live in Aspen Hill don’t need to shovel own sidewalk because they are “vulnerable”. [/quote]

That's not the logic though. Go read the bill. Nothing in the bill and comments on it is about the people who live along these designated routes being unable or unwilling to clear snow. That's something OP invented to start this thread. The actual reason for the bill, which is explained in the staff notes on it, is that these are areas with high usage of public transit and lots of pedestrians, so making sure the sidewalks are clear is more important. It's about the relative importance of public access, not who can and can't be expected to shovel. It's the same reason they currently shovel urban areas, that's not based on a belief that people in urban areas are less able to shovel.[/quote]
However, they have instead a methodology to apply this service to areas based on race without indication of transit needs. Further, plenty of areas also have lots of transit riders and riders, like Friendship Heights, who will not receive this service from the county. [/quote]

They didn't. They used the equity areas as a first step which are based on race in some cases, but also income (income being a decent proxy for transit needs) and then limited it to areas near transit. Transit need was the factor not "race without indication of transit need."
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