02-05-2020, 03:41 PM
https://www.waterloochronicle.ca/news-st...-waterloo/
"If you have a neighbourhood issue, where do you go? City or to your neighbour? According to the City of Waterloo, more and more are relying on the municipality."
This byline is the worst, but the article perpetuates a fundamental failure to understand the problems with sidewalk clearing.
I have called in literally thousands of uncleared sidewalk complaints. Not one has ever been for a neighbour. I am happy to clear my neighbours walk the odd time.
However, I am unable to clear the hundreds of uncleared sidewalks I walk on, on my way to my destination. How do I have a conversation with that person, who isn't my neighbour, who I don't know, and only intend to spend a few seconds in front of their house, and who in many cases lives in a different country.
I wish they would perpetuating this falsehood that sidewalks are only about the one in front of your house.
"If you have a neighbourhood issue, where do you go? City or to your neighbour? According to the City of Waterloo, more and more are relying on the municipality."
This byline is the worst, but the article perpetuates a fundamental failure to understand the problems with sidewalk clearing.
I have called in literally thousands of uncleared sidewalk complaints. Not one has ever been for a neighbour. I am happy to clear my neighbours walk the odd time.
However, I am unable to clear the hundreds of uncleared sidewalks I walk on, on my way to my destination. How do I have a conversation with that person, who isn't my neighbour, who I don't know, and only intend to spend a few seconds in front of their house, and who in many cases lives in a different country.
I wish they would perpetuating this falsehood that sidewalks are only about the one in front of your house.