City sidewalks frustrate wheelchair-bound nurse

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Diana Dye lives one-tenth of a mile from the Dollar General Store in Downtown Poplar Bluff. Getting there should be an easy trip, but because of poor sidewalk conditions, she is subjected to a haphazard route; Dye travels deftly along Vine until Broadway Street, where she then turns against traffic because her motorized wheelchair can't make it safely onto the sidewalk. She then maneuvers around parked cars until she reaches the dimly lit parking garage.

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