Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

I think a few things that the cities could help with is ensuring sidewalk clearing by-laws are the same across all municipalities (if they aren't already) and making it obvious when a snowfall triggering event is officially "OVER" and the clock to clear your walk starts ticking down complete with a huge countdown on their webpages, Twitter, FaceBook, The Cube projection on Kitchener city hall's Berlin Tower, etc.

Or maybe just bring back Wendel and Lloyd's ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rvLZr-ZJg4

This actually highlights another problem with the sidewalk clearing policies.  Since that timer restarts any time there is more snow, in many winters, we have a week at a time or more, when we have snow every 36 hours.  By that metric, there is no requirement to clear snow any time during that period.  (I know the bylaw says 24 hours, but the city's policy is to consider a 36 hour time frame).