Winter Walking and Cycling

[ijmorlan]

The pattern that I usually observe holds: a majority of properties make at least an attempt to clear and usually a good attempt, but a few frontages where no clearing was done whatsoever can mean it's very difficult to get around.

It occurs to me that any statistics should be done at approximately the block level. The rating for a block should be the rating of the worst property on the block. This would give a reasonable picture of the conditions experienced by somebody with low mobility. Suppose 95% of properties are reasonably well cleared (however well done one believes that to be). This is of course a hilarious suggestion, but let’s just go with it for the moment. Then some one walking several blocks will encounter a barrier approximately 100% of the time. So reporting “95% clear rate” would be grossly misleading, to the point of dishonesty. If instead we report maybe “50% of blocks clear” then we get something that might actually get people to think about the implications.