04-19-2018, 06:37 PM
(04-19-2018, 06:02 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Exactly, the 24 hour rule is one of convenience and clarity for bylaw, not effectiveness...even more so, a real snow clearing policy would clear major routes quickly and minor routes less quickly, such a biased bylaw is unlikely to ever be acceptable.
Indeed. But the reason major routes are cleared first is that the snow clearing crew isn’t big enough to just do everything “all at once”. The bylaw pretends to conscript every property owner in the city into the snow clearing crew, so all the sidewalks can be cleared all together.
So probably if the city cleared the sidewalks major routes would be cleared rapidly. Small residential culs de sac would not be cleared for a couple of days after a major snowfall. But that’s still better than never being properly cleared as is the case now.