Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

The likely reason they haven't faced any issues is because bylaws officers are useless. If they're unwilling to enforce mask usage in a pandemic, there's little chance they'll enforce sidewalk clearing in winter unless they get enough complaints.

And don’t forget that even strict enforcement runs into the brick wall of a poorly written bylaw so that nobody can ever be in violation during or in the 24 hours after a snowfall. In principle, the weather could be such that nobody could ever be in violation; if a light flurry occurs every day, nobody is ever in violation of the bylaw.

Yeah, these are all on point.

But I'd still argue there's a very good chance it has never been called in. Very few people will call this kind of thing in. There are many social reasons, not least of which because unencumbered able adults can pretty much walk over everything and those who aren't able to already know to avoid walking places.

And this is the whole point of the policy. Bylaw reporting exists to pretend the policy works...rather than to make it work.

This is why I was legitimately furious at my tax dollars being wasted on pro-active bylaw enforcement. It was nothing more than pretending harder.