Winter Walking and Cycling

[ijmorlan]

3. No city that does the clearing themselves has a bare-pavement standard.  Let me repeat that... no city that clears their sidewalks gets down to a point that's considered accessible by our own accessibility advisory committee.  They all have a packed-snow standard because they know it's not possible if the city does it.  I don't believe bare pavement is a reasonable standard either depending on weather events, but my point is, using accessibility as an argument for city-clearing is entirely fictitious. 

Just noticed this too.

I don’t know what the City of Waterloo’s official standard is for sidewalks that they clear, but I know that as a practical matter the sidewalks near me that are cleared by the city are down to the pavement most of the time. So all they need to do is run the same sidewalk plows on every sidewalk instead of just some sidewalks, and we will definitely have much better results than we do now, and at less cumulative cost over the entire population.

I’d appreciate if you would do us all the courtesy of discontinuing claiming that bare pavement is not done when it plainly is.

Also as I mentioned, I think just up-thread, the existence of some sidewalks already cleared by the city proves that it can work, and it does work better than each property clearing their own — there is no prediction or theory to be tested, just a straightforward observation of what is already happening. The question is, do I believe your words or my lying eyes?