Winter Walking and Cycling

[danbrotherston]

Thank you for going. I'm sorry I couldn't- I had a work commitment that was largely out of my control.

I made comments to my councillor that she had said would be brought up in the committee meeting. I guess that didn't happen. I'm extremely disappointed that the way in which staff enforced the bylaw changed from one year to the next (I still don't know exactly when) with no consultation to guide those changes, and no communication of them after the fact.

As a property owner and a resident who walks around the sidewalks, I feel I have the right to know what is expected of me vis a vis the sidewalks, and what I should expect of the sidewalks.

I agree with you about paying for a study from a third party. A person's opinion about the sidewalks is not relevant if he or she never uses them. My feeling that roads are great doesn't and shouldn't hold a lot of water if I wasn't driving on them. I don't see why this piece of infrastructure should be treated differently than others.

This was mentioned very subtly in the meeting where someone--I cannot remember who--stated that only the messaging was changed, not the actual standard.  This is a very nice way of saying that someone is lying, either staff are lying to council, council is lying to us, or staff are lying to us (or multiple people were were lying to me), because those statements are in direct conflict.