These days you’re lucky to even get a sidewalk
“We would by lying, if we said that we were sorry that you don’t have sidewalks. However, we don’t care about pedestrians, we only care about cars and their vrooms, vrooms.” - Probably some city official.
We used to have them until several years ago they were deliberately removed. Their roots were destroying the roads and sidewalks, as well as infiltrating the underground infrastructure.
Time to put them back properly with new knowledge. :)
I love that I was fortunate to get a home in an old urban neighborhood in a city that’s pretty good. The tree coverage in my hood is nuts. I see a few mature black walnuts and a ton of mature pines among all the other smaller trees. I can walk to the grocery store with 80% canopy coverage the entire way.