(01-22-2025, 09:16 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Again, part of why I gave up and left. Admittedly, if you just want to fix the sidewalk problem, you don't have to go nearly as far as you think. London, St. Marys, even Elmira have municipal sidewalk clearing that is infinitely (yes, infinitely, the denominator is 0 after all) better than Kitchener's.
I grew up in London. The service is definitely not perfect, Londoners could (and do) complain the city doesn't come quickly enough. But eventually, the sidewalks will be cleared and, once they are, you know they all are.
I spoke with Kitchener bylaw this morning, and their main challenge to hear them explain it is they have to wait 24 hours after each snowfall to investigate a complaint. The clock resets multiple times if we have more snow, and then even really egregious cases take weeks to have anything done about them.
The person I spoke with talked to me about a case of a vacant property whose sidewalk has never been cleared this winter. It was apparently reported by someone on January 10, bylaw tried unsuccessfully to call the owner, and it is now due to be cleared. That will likely not happen until the end of this week, so in this case it takes