The Ownership Nobody Wants to Take First

A sidewalk rarely cracks where the actual root is. Tree roots, searching underground for water, can travel twenty feet or more from the trunk before finally pushing hard enough against a slab of concrete to split it open — which means the crack a pedestrian trips over, the one they blame on “bad concrete” or “poor city maintenance,” is very often nowhere near what actually caused it.

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