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odnewsinDoda, J&K: Snow Clearance Underway Amid Thick Snow
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Likely Jan LukasAfter having to head out for an extra appointment yesterday and encountering a lot more businesses (and a few roads!) with uncleared parking areas that had become deep, sticky slush I was reminded of the now-unfashionable film staple of deadly danger and unpredictable outcomes: #quicksand.
If there isn't already a word for this sort of deep, sucking slush that can easily trap vehicles, perhaps 'quickslush' is an appropriate descriptor? 🤔
Walking/rolling up/down a slope on a #winter road was *staggeringly dangerous*, as again, this road carries vehicular traffic and let's just say #Edmonton drivers seem to be keeping up with the trend of not really noticing anything else in their vicinity. 😬
But ironically that dangerous circumstance was ACCESSIBLE.
🙄😡
17/x
IRONCIALLY, this situation was manageble when we had the prior #BusRoute, simply due to #SnowClearance and #WinterMaintenance.
Back then, the local road was #ploughed and #salted or #sanded regularly.
So even though sidewalk-alley intersections were impassable, if you could get ON to the road surface itself, the region could still be traversed.
16/x
But that stop is long gone now, and so too is the #BusRoute that served it. This also means that this street is no longer considered essential for city #SnowClearance.
As mentioned, no big deal, right? That new stop is still close by even though ~2x as far.
But …
5/x
Well, as I mentioned, the old stop was at a T-intersection. I had to cross a single road to get to the stop, and because it was a bus route, the city ploughed it regularly throughout #winter.
Hereabouts, non-major roads are NOT ploughed until the snowpack becomes too deep for emergency vehicles. (The rest of us can just eff off, I suppose?).
2/x
HeliomassThe great winter ballet is beginning!
Maureen WilsonWard 1 newsletter is out - lots to read, including my backgrounder on the 2023 budget.
https://www.maureenwilson.ca/nl_2023-04-14
#budget #infrastructure #snowclearance
https://www.maureenwilson.ca/nl_2023-04-14
#budget #infrastructure #snowclearance
Her Doing HealthAn analysis of #Sweden ’s formerly discriminatory #snow clearance practices showed it disadvantaged #women, who were more likely to #walk, while employment districts where men predominantly worked were more likely to have #streets plowed first.
Also, negative impact on society as a whole: three times as many people are injured while #walking in #icy conditions than while driving & the cost of those injuries far exceeds the cost of #SnowClearance.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/why-sweden-clears-walkways-before-roads/
