by KYW's Mike Dunn

This will put a bounce in your step: Philadelphia City Council will look at whether the city’s sidewalks should be made of rubber.  

City Councilman at large Jim Kenney recently toured Chicago to see environmentally-friendly city projects there. And he came back with a slew of ideas on which he plans to hold hearings.

One idea is using rubber for sidewalks, though Kenney stresses you wouldn’t be bouncing:

“It’s a very solid material. Probably harder than a running track.  Certainly not a trampoline. Not like the Bud Light commercial, where they’re banging the bottles off the ground.”

Kenney says rubber sidewalks are made from recycled tires. They don’t crack and last longer than cement. And Kenney says they reduce the number of slip-and-falls and the resulting lawsuits.