Winter Walking and Cycling

[ijmorlan]

Just because I feel like a record of these things is important (and I'd like even more opportunity to vent) this post gives the information on sidewalk clearing.

For context, main road in Waterloo Region were completely clear as of Monday morning.  My coworker drove in from Guelph with incident or even slowness.

Sidewalks however, are completely 100% blocked.  I walked from my workplace, down King from Columbia down to Downtown, and only one block from Green St. to Andrews St. was cleared.  Every single other block had at least one property or curb cut that was uncleared.

Kitchener bylaw enforcement did not go out Tuesday on account of the 1-2 cm of snow that fell on Monday.

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Amen, brother!

This has got to be an AODA violation. OK, during that storm it would be unreasonable to expect a person with reduced mobility to be able to get around with no more difficulty than anybody else. But days later? If this isn’t a violation the law isn’t worth the pixels it appears on.