Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

What efficiency!!! This is how snow is removed in Montreal, right in front of our university's dormitory. https://t.co/GMxFWKc76B

— Ilian Bonev (@ibonev) December 19, 2016

I guess having the city look after the sidewalks might come with its own set of problems.

I'm assuming this is a joking remark.  Of course there are problems, people's lawns get torn up from time to time.  That's the whole reason why staff suggested against doing it, there would actually be more complaints.

Of course, that's not a reason not to do it, a few lawns are not worth keeping the disaster we have now.

Also, that's a tracked sidewalk plow, the region uses trackless units.  Anyone know what the difference is?  I assume trackless units are more manueverable.

For the record, I walked home tonight, 2.43 kms, I passed (and reported) 14 uncleared sidewalks.  These are all on Belmont or Victoria, two very (and in the case of Victoria) extremely busy pedestrian roads.   That's one every 173 meters.

Most agregious example, a business which has cleared it's driveway and parking lot (including the part where cars cross the sidewalk) to bare concrete, it's walkway from the driveway to the front door to bare concrete, but has clearly never touched it's sidewalk since snow started to fall this year.

Yet, somehow this bug report got marked "working as intended".  Go figure.