Winter Walking and Cycling

[ijmorlan]

There is a huge post in the Waterloo subreddit claiming motorized snow removal doesn't produce acceptable results …

Any such post is flagrantly incorrect, as a factual matter. All over the city there are sidewalk and path segments that are completely bare due to motorized snow removal. Maybe they are assuming no use of melting agents whatsoever. Anyway, even if that were true, the fix would be to either hire a bunch of people to follow the mechanical removal, or make individual property owners responsible for getting the sidewalks down from the 1cm or whatever left by the plow down to bare concrete. There is simply no legitimate argument for not getting rid of most of the snow using plows.