Winter Walking and Cycling

[ijmorlan]

I wouldn't expect effective enforcement to be less expensive than the city just clearing the sidewalks, but I guess I don't know for sure. In the neighbourhoods I walk in, I think the city is likely to do a better job of clearing the sidewalks than is done now, but I guess I don't know that for sure, either. It's a good idea for the City to do pilots so we can determine these kinds of things definitively.

Actually, while it is true that we don’t know the standard to which the city would clear the sidewalks in any hypothetical future where they take over sidewalk clearing, it is a fact that if the city clears all the sidewalks as well as they do the ones that they already clear near my house, then most sidewalks will definitely be cleared better than they are now.

The sidewalks near me are usually down to the pavement where the city clears, and reasonably clear reasonably promptly after snowfall. It is well established in this discussion board that the same cannot be said of non-city-cleared sidewalks.