Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

Sadly, I suspect the only way things will change is if the cities get slammed with a hefty lawsuit such that the cost of *not* proactively addressing the problem becomes apparent. I suspect the current snow-clearing policies, or at least the failure to aggressively enforce those policies, would be found to violate the Charter.

And/or the AODA. This is very disappointing. Yet again, the obviously correct choice has to be pushed down the road another few months or years.

A full year, deferred till 2019, and frankly.  And this comes from a councillor who protested repeatedly that she wanted the best sidewalk clearing.

The current snow clearing policies are 100% broken.

I analyzed the snowfall data from 2018, in only three and a half months, there were 8 instances where bylaw required zero snow clearing for at least 5 days in a row, and several instances where it was more than 8 days in a row.

That's with 100% enforcement.  If homeowners are willing to risk a warning, we have multiple strings of no snow clearing of over 11 days.

Bylaw is 100% useless here.  I wish we'd stop pretending like it did anything...

The election is in October, I sure wish it was in January...of course, many of those who would object to this policy would have trouble getting to the polls...