[evanelias]

Oh how random, that's near where I grew up, and almost certainly in the school district I went to.

As for why the sidewalk abruptly ends, normally it's due to a border between municipalities: some of the municipalities in the area don't have sidewalks at all, and confusingly several of them have Lansdale postal addresses despite not actually being part of Lansdale proper (which does have sidewalks).

But in this specific case I think it's Upper Gwynedd Township on both sides of the bridge, so who knows.

I haven't lived there in decades, but sorry about your ticket in any case!

One other ironic wrinkle: iirc students have to walk to school if there's a route under 1 mile long with continuous sidewalk coverage. And that spot where you got ticketed is right about a mile from the high school. So if that bridge actually had sidewalks, maybe there would be no need for a bus stop in that location where you got the ticket.