Winter Walking and Cycling

[dtkmelissa]

Though not my ideal, I do wonder if the best way forward right now is to encourage council to consider a slow build out of the program, starting in the (more dense and overall walkable) core/central neighbourhoods and expand that out slowly over the next several years. Still thinking on this of course, but it's just one idea I had to try to find a way to move forward.

That could be good value indeed. But the funding would likely have to come out of general revenues, which means that it would be shared by all property owners in the city. Or is there a way to have only the downtown wards' property owners pay for this? Or would this be small enough that it would be acceptable to distribute across all properties?

Yes, I've definitely thought that will be the main objection (or at least one of the objections). I do think this kind of thing happens fairly often though (where one segment of residents) bares the costs of services that they don't benefit from. I think of when I lived out in Williamsburg area and all of the expensive infrastructure that had to be but in place so my neighbours and I could have indoor plumbing and roads  But I understand that it may not be a palatable option because it seems unfair to suburban residents to pay for sidewalk clearing 'downtown'.