SRTS is an awesome program. My local municipality (Penn Hills), cuts all sidewalks from any proposal and even removed some already installed sidewalks because they're too "expensive" and people don't want them. I did the math - if every land owner's tax were increased by 20$ a year, that money could put down 1 mile of permeable sidewalk (recycled rubber not concrete) that is lower maintenance than the crap shoulders people have to walk on now. Maybe the code isn't structured appropriately, but it wouldn't take an act of congress to fix that. They just wont exert themselves, and my lazy neighbors won't vote them out or speak up. Most municipal meetings have all of three people at them.
A local group applied to SRTS, and got rejected for total lack of municipal support, becaue the municipality offered ZERO assistance, and recently CUT the .25 miles of sidewalk required to link the new school with the library (wasn't worth it). Jagoffs.
I'm all for eliminating stupid mandates that require places to repave perfectly good pavement. But that's not necessarily the mandate's fault, it's asshattery in implementation. THAT's what I'm against. Idiotic implementation of ideas that could be used for good.