Your piece saying 853 sections of city sidewalk need repair at a cost of $21,200,000 send me trundling off to my fourth-grade math. Each section’s cost: $24,853.46. Who said Richmond’s streets aren’t paved with gold?
Robert P. Hilldrup
Richmond
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