I’m glad to see improvements but I find the fact they needed to even do a pilot project for this a bit ridiculous. Of course people will have better mobility if the sidewalk is actually clear. Residents reported significant improvemts even while the sidewalks are getting a fraction of the attention the roads gets.
The article also mentions how a plow will often refill the sidewalk after it passes. The city should strive to try to have sidewalk plows follow road plows, especially on major routes and near schools. Having a sidewalk clear “within 24 hours” after a storm is a bit ridiculous. Some storms hit pretty hard, but people still have to work and get places regardless.
Many of the residents who helped report sidewalk conditions in the study have also reported falling due to uncleared sidewalks. This isn’t just a mobility issue, it is a public health issue as well.
Opinion: Public wants winter sidewalk maintenance made permanent
The group Greater Sudbury Safer Sidewalks says surveys it has conducted during the past two years of a pilot project exploring enhanced winter sidewalk maintenance clearly show the public wants the project to become permanent
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This guy really is trying to sound like trump. He also calls environmental protections radical as if having clean water and air for our future generations is a bad thing. Sudbury still bears the scars of minings impacts even after millions of dollars in environmental remediation.
‘Get out of the way’ of mines, Poilievre tells feds at Val Caron rally
