 sidewalks to nowhere alaska has its famous bridge to nowhere washington dc has its foreign policy to nowhere now detroit has its  sidewalks to nowhere  along one halfmile stretch of crumbling sidewalks in detroit there are 52 new sets of wheelchair ramps some provide access to an empty lot where a middle school was razed in 2009 on many corners sidewalks end after the ramps you drive down some of these streets and there are blocks of no houses but pretty new curbs said sherman hayes 84 a retired nurse who lives nearby look at all these ramps to nowhere it makes my blood boil a man after my own heart disgusted at the malicious waste of money if i may make a suggestion don t vote for democrats anymore it s bad for the physical safety and mental stability of all human beings back to the point look rules are rules and if there is something bureaucrats are good at it is enforcing rules regardless of if those rules have relevance to the current situation or not detroit has spent 30 million dollars so far on sidewalk ramps and it will take 60 million more to finish the job what else would detroit use that money on food socks fire extinguishers devil s night is right around the corner of course you couldn t actually make the changes to intersections where the sidewalks actually go somewhere or perhaps do this in neighborhoods where there are people who need them or where there are people at all that would require a dangerous dose of common sense to ruffle the kingsized blanket of regulations that continue to smother us i think instead what will happen is the continued investment of taxpayer money to fund lovely new handicap accessible walkway to cracked weedinfested sidewalks to nowhere they re from the government and they re here to help  