Winter Walking and Cycling

[PhilippAchtel]

I'm really not sure what your personal issue with me is.

But it's a shame you're letting it prevent you from recognizing the difficult that some in our community have getting around, and causing you to be disruptive here.

I'm quite sure that everyone recognizes that if 95% of the snow is removed from every sidewalk that's fine, but that isn't what 95% clear means.

I don't have any personal issue with you, I am sorry that you see it that way, and am not sure how that post was 'disruptive'. I just wanted to highlight that people have different ideas of what passable is.

I'm not sure where in my short statement that I am denying that some people can't move anywhere if there is snow. 

I wanted to contribute further but it seems that only certain views are welcomed.

Nah, you dug up your personal history of interacting with this poster in a drive-by low-substance comment. Now, when you're called out on it, you're playing the victim to elicit sympathy. It's silly.

Clearly, danbrotherson understands that people have different ideas of what passable means. Someone who is able-bodied can stumble through a pressed-down section of sidewalk and mostly manage to not fall on their face. Is this "cleared" because the most people with no mobility issues can get through, albeit awkwardly?

On the other hand, you have people in mobility scooters, with walkers, pushing strollers and so on who are forced by the very same section of sidewalk to detour onto the road to get by. Can this section of sidewalk be said to be "cleared" if people have to walk in the road (which coincidentally is cleared by the city, whom we are saying are too slow to provide adequate service) to pass?

Nothing will stop concerned or proud homeowners from clearing their own sidewalks if they choose, just as nothing stops them from clearing GRT stops before the contractor arrives. But danbrotherson is correct to say that city and regional policy should be set primarily for the routes pedestrians depend on before poo-pooing the idea because it might not give the same priority to culs-de-sac as it does for major arterial routes. After all, this is precisely the system we use for street plowing, which while not perfect is miles ahead of sidewalk maintenance policy.