Winter Walking and Cycling

[plam]

Having found myself with a health issue that prevents me from cycling and necessitates that I hobble around with a walker, I am confronted with the difficulties that even a small amount of snow causes for navigation, especially getting on and off a GRT bus. Even when a property owner does a reasonable job of clearing the sidewalk, along comes a plow clearing the bike lane and throwing the snow onto the sidewalk. Even an inch of snow at the curb cut makes crossing intersections a chore. Today, coming back from the Kitchener Market, the bus driver put down the ramp for me at the Stirling/Mill stop, but it didn't go all the way past the snow, so even getting off the ramp to the sidewalk was difficult. In past winters, even when I was normally ambulatory, getting over a snowbank to enter a bus could be a struggle. I am not going to have a good winter. Even without the snow, navigating uneven sidewalks and poor transitions between the sidewalk and the road at intersections is not so easy.

Sorry to hear about that. This is really something that should be a city responsibility in general, right?