01-08-2015, 09:38 AM
(01-08-2015, 12:06 AM)mpd618 Wrote: The state of the sidewalks in the winter here is atrocious. Some streets are better than others, but at at the end of the day you cannot count on the sidewalks to be generally passable like you can with the roads. And that comes down to the choices our municipalities have made about what is a real priority and what can be left to individual property owners and enforced on complaint (but only N days after a snowfall).+1
Our politicians (I won't name names now that she's gone) devote a lot of hot air to telling us how much they want to make their cities more walkable/cyclable, more senior friendly, etc. But they can't get even the sidewalks on their own property to be cleared of snow in reasonable time. One example is the sidewalk on Caroline in front of the municipal parking lot at Alexandra. Too bad they don't apply that hot air directly to the snow. That would be far more effective.