11-09-2018, 12:50 PM
The city of Kitchener I believe estimated that it would cost $27 per household, per year, nowhere near $50/month.
I definitely don't report anywhere near all the impediments I come across, because when I walk to work, if I take streets with homes instead of city-maintained ones, I pass dozens and dozens and dozens of homes, and don't have time to double or triple my commute each day to report those whose sidewalks are compacted by footprints, layered with half a foot of snow. An app that worked with a simple UI that only required the dexterity of the poor-definition touchscreen-enabled gloves, and let me click "report", gave me maybe 4-6 house numbers based on GPS location (so I could select the house from the nearest forward/backward, my side/opposite side of street), I'd use it.
I don't seek to call in people like you, Canard, where it's not down to concrete (the city's estimate for what city-run services would do was something like <1cm hard-pack). But I forget a bit that one reason I took up winter cycling this past year was because the walk to work was frustrating, both when I was impeded, as well as when I could tell that while I was able-bodied enough to make it through, others weren't. Where I used to live, I would see two different people with visual impairment, and many other people who used different mobility aids, getting blocked and trapped in snow, both of private owners as well as managed complexes. It's insane to me how we can accept that.
I definitely don't report anywhere near all the impediments I come across, because when I walk to work, if I take streets with homes instead of city-maintained ones, I pass dozens and dozens and dozens of homes, and don't have time to double or triple my commute each day to report those whose sidewalks are compacted by footprints, layered with half a foot of snow. An app that worked with a simple UI that only required the dexterity of the poor-definition touchscreen-enabled gloves, and let me click "report", gave me maybe 4-6 house numbers based on GPS location (so I could select the house from the nearest forward/backward, my side/opposite side of street), I'd use it.
I don't seek to call in people like you, Canard, where it's not down to concrete (the city's estimate for what city-run services would do was something like <1cm hard-pack). But I forget a bit that one reason I took up winter cycling this past year was because the walk to work was frustrating, both when I was impeded, as well as when I could tell that while I was able-bodied enough to make it through, others weren't. Where I used to live, I would see two different people with visual impairment, and many other people who used different mobility aids, getting blocked and trapped in snow, both of private owners as well as managed complexes. It's insane to me how we can accept that.