01-17-2018, 11:12 PM
(01-17-2018, 10:29 PM)darts Wrote:(01-17-2018, 09:22 PM)PhilippAchtel Wrote: None. After 24 hours, anyone who can travel on a regular sidewalk in any other season should be able to travel on a sidewalk in the winter.
We're a medium-sized wealthy city in the 21st century. We know the cost of providing such a service, and that it's well within our means to do so. The ability to safely travel from your home to your destination even in winter should be seen as something of a human right. The idea that anyone in our city has to take the road to pass with their stroller or mobility scooter should be seen as an embarrassment.
does that include all sidewalks citywide?
Would preventive methods be better so there wouldn't even be a 24 hour waiting period? The payback from operating a 24 hour service for sidewalk clearing that is 100% effective would lead to having sheltered sidewalks/tunnels.
I don't know. We don't encase all our public roadways in glass tunnels and that's not what advocates for a more comprehensive sidewalk clearing policy are asking for either. Holding pedestrian walkways to the same or similar standards is not at all an unreasonable request.