Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

The "less than one percent" threw me, too. On my ~1.5 kilometre walk to an appointment this morning, I noted eight properties where no removal had been done whatsoever from the significant snowfall Monday night. That doesn't include properties where the job done was poor (one swipe with a snowblower or shovel, for instance), or windrows that were not clear.

To be fair to them, of the 450 complaints, many could easily be duplicates of each other.

Fair enough, 

Still that would mean only 187 unique complaints.

Regardless, it's bullshit...and even extremely major intersections, Weber/Victoria has been buried in snow since the first snowfall...never been touched.

The claim is that bylaw is out today, which also seems strange, bylaw has always said they need 24 hours from the last snowfall, we got several cm last night.  And how does that differ from the situation on the weekend, where we had a clear day, that was 24 hours from a major snowfall, but with multiple intervening snowfalls.

The only thing more useless than the current situation would be a situation where bylaws are not enforced in an enforceable way, and WE (taxpayers) get billed for the cost of clearing each individual violating property because the city cannot prove the bylaw was not followed.  This is why the bylaw is such garbage to begin with.

We're really working towards achieving the maximum cost for the minimum benefit here.