Walking in Waterloo Region

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Last winter, I generated dozens of complaints about uncleared sidewalks. I might be conservative in my estimate. It takes a moment each; no big deal for me. What you say is important: even if forty-nine out of fifty property owners clear their sidewalks, that fiftieth person's laziness or lack of planning prevents someone from using that route, and so negates the efforts of all of his neighbours.

It should be unacceptable. It's worth telling the municipal government that we don't accept it.

Are you a property owner who has a sidewalk to shovel?

I am. The state of the sidewalks in the winter here is atrocious. Some streets are better than others, but at at the end of the day you cannot count on the sidewalks to be generally passable like you can with the roads. And that comes down to the choices our municipalities have made about what is a real priority and what can be left to individual property owners and enforced on complaint (but only N days after a snowfall).

That has very little to do with whether I have a sidewalk to shovel. Though I wouldn't at all mind paying a trivial amount of money for the city to shovel my sidewalk with its huge economy of scale.