Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

The report specifically talked about hiring new officers, on a temporary basis in winter. It is definitely not the case that existing officers are doing pro-active enforcement, those officers are already at capacity dealing with complaints, which often result in days (or weeks) long backlogs of complaints about uncleared sidewalks to investigate.

Sorry Coke, I know bylaw officers are trying, but generally I find bylaw enforcement pretty ineffective for things like parking and sidewalk clearing.

No offense... I don't work in by-law anymore.

All I can say is *I* was effective in parking & noise when I was there....  

Coke

I don't mean to say that individuals officers are not effective, I mean to say that the policy and system of enforcing bylaws like parking and snow removal is not effective.

Basically, when a person can park in a bike lane and 99.99% sure they won't receive a 35 dollar parking ticket, enforcement is not one of the factors dictating whether this person parks in the bike lane or not.