Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

Please write your councillors, they need to hear this again and again.

Some of those "insincere" people (and I do agree that is the right word, if they've deluded themselves into believing a lie to justify their belief, that's still on them) are sitting on Kitchener City Council.

I've written my own councillor (including this season). I can't pretend to know how she really feels about this issue. She's voted for the city to do more to maintain its sidewalks in the past.

I agree that we need to keep the pressure on the politicians. I also do think we should be calling in and making reports to staff- even if there is little short-term action taken- but I've just grown a bit exhausted with it this year after it became obvious at the end of last winter that nothing at all was being done.

Indeed. This is one of the most surprising things about bylaw enforcement, is that sidewalks that are habitually not cleared don't actually get cleared ever. I'm not sure why this is the case, but the sidewalk on Weber at Victoria that I use frequently has never been cleared, not once, in the past two winters that I've lived here.  I've called it in probably a hundred times, but it has never achieved anything. It's still uncleared yesterday, and I've asked the bylaw officers to call me back, but I've still not heard anything.

It is amazing the level of disconnect between what some city councillors believe about sidewalks and the reality faced by people using sidewalks.