Walking in Waterloo Region

[plam]

As someone who walks _A LOT_ in the winter, about 99% of the time I go walking, I still encountered at least one sidewalk that was poorly cleared or entirely uncleared.

I'm a pretty able person, so I can deal, but, it's still an unacceptable situation.

The fact is, putting the onus on property owners simply doesn't work, complaints or not.  People just don't complain about it, except probably when their neighbour doesn't do it.  Frankly, I doubt there are many people in the city who do as I do and make a list of uncleared sidewalks everytime I walk somewhere.

This is incredibly frustrating.

It was interesting to see that a lot of other Ontario cities did clear sidewalks. Most of them, in fact, yes?

But I can imagine people balking at the $26 tax increase. We seem to be really anti-tax-increase in this province. And yet, it is certainly cheaper than hiring someone individually to clear your sidewalk.