Winter Walking and Cycling

[ijmorlan]

Moving forward, I don't envy either bylaw or council, as this issue is going to be impossible to fix, at least without a lot of money. However, they could extend the snowblower program, to see how that works. Though I really think everyone is out of ideas, as it seems that the city doing it won't move forward (and if it did, same level of complaints).

Probably all we need is an AODA lawsuit. Then the City will extend its sidewalk clearing program to all sidewalks (not just those in front of City properties). Problem solved, or at least about as solved as it’s going to be given our weather. Unless Kitchener is noticeably worse at clearing its own sidewalks than Waterloo. Here in Waterloo all the portions cleared by the City were in pretty good shape all winter, at least as far as I saw.

Still, I don’t know why our democratically elected governments can’t get their acts together without being constantly forced to do so by court rulings.

I’m not impressed with either Bylaw or Council. The two modes in which Bylaw has operated (citing for tiny patches of ice, and ignoring massive non-compliance) are both obviously incorrect. And Council obviously should have proceeded with the pilot. If that had turned out not to work so well, then they would be in a situation where I would have some sympathy for their position.