01-04-2018, 02:19 PM
(01-04-2018, 01:01 PM)MidTowner Wrote:(01-04-2018, 12:41 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Right, it’s the City’s, i.e. their colleagues', fault.
I was too polite to say that. But, yes...
One thing that has improved so far this year is that the plows seem less apt to cover half of an entire length of sidewalk with snow when there is no boulevard. I used to live on a street with no boulevard, and it was a pain when that happened. And plenty of property owners will just let the sidewalk get increasingly narrow when it happens.
I wonder if this is not simply because there hasn't yet been the same accumulation we have by later in the year. Last year I recall some waist high snowbanks that I had to climb up to cross roads...frankly, it was dangerous even for an able bodied person like me.
The biggest "insult to injury" part of this issue that I've seen was CoK staff's report on sidewalk clearing which suggested they would get "more complaints" with sidewalk plowing, without acknowledging that those complaints would be "oh no, the plow scraped my grass" instead of "help I'm stuck in my house and I cannot get to my job/appointments/food because the sidewalks are blocked".