01-17-2018, 08:21 AM
(01-16-2018, 08:17 PM)darts Wrote:(01-16-2018, 04:11 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: The thing which bothers me is the idea that sidewalks which are 95% cleared are passable. To many people, they aren't.
when I read it all i could think of was your complaint that the sidewalks were unpassable when there was just some light snowfall last year.
Last year's winter was abnormally easy, but even then there were a few cases of snowfall that resulted in impassable sidewalks. Thanks to the weather, these were few, and pretty brief.
The TriTag notes that specifically- it was not a normal winter, it was abnormally warm, but still the rate that sidewalks were cleared was pretty poor. And the test is higher than most people would apply.
We're getting lucky this year, in the grand scheme of things. The Christmas holiday was pretty bad for walking around, but in the new year at least we've had a thaw, and we'll have another one later this week. But, in the meantime, there have been significant periods where it's a challenge to get around, despite the easy weather.