Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

Staff’s report says that proactive enforcement “appears to have worked” due to reduced orders to clear sidewalks from previous years. What they do not note is that they changed their criteria for issuing those orders sometime during the 2018/19 winter season.
 
The implication in the report is that, though citizen complaints about sidewalks went up 79% from 2017/18 to 2018/19, those citizens were wrong, because staff didn’t issue orders to clear at the same rate in the past. Nevermind that this is because they changed their criteria for issuing those orders. Nevermind that people walking around obviously weren’t too happy about the sidewalks. The point is, the program worked because sidewalks were better-cleared, because staff said they were better cleared.

Time to storm...er..politely point this out in council. 

I have asked to speak with my city councillor, I want to know if this will show up at general council as well as committee....

The suggestion that proactive enforcement "worked" is utterly absurd.  The only metric is were sidewalks clear and passable during the winter and the ONLY answer is "not even a little bit".