Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

I think snowmelt systems might be overkill for bus stops, we have thousands of them, few with any electrical service...but, what we can probably do, cheaper and easier in the long term, is simply build more substantial shelters. It wouldn't eliminate the need for snow removal, but it would greatly reduce it, and also greatly improve the waiting experience at bus stops in general.

Snowmelt systems would be great, but they'd have to installed right to the curb, and even at that, snowplows leave huge windrows which would likely interfere with the system.

Snowmelt systems work great, btw, but likely should the limited to LRT stops.

Maybe we should have a citizens group that can twitter post the sites that are not maintained properly.

Actually this is a good point, they'd actually have to be installed past the curb, since the ploughs generally don't push snow all the way to the curb (why we decide to have wider roads for "snow storage" instead of storing snow in the much cheaper to build and maintain boulevard, I will never know).