04-19-2018, 01:18 PM
(04-19-2018, 12:53 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(04-19-2018, 12:43 PM)robdrimmie Wrote: There's something in the contract that allows them to get away with only paving a strip that is perhaps a foot-and-a-half wide, and this strip does not need to be connected to a sidewalk at all. It is absurd.
Do you mean clearing, rather than paving?
Agreed regardless!
The standard is also ridiculously lax. It's something like 72 hours for the contractor. BUUT...and here's a big BUT. The contractor only has to come out when GRT calls. And GRT has stated that they "can't" (really are choosing not to spend the money) to clear snow until after plowing. So they wait for the city snow event to end. Which ends up being about 48 hours after the end of snowfall. As a result, bus stop clearing is about a 5 day process after snow. How many times this winter was there even 5 days between snowfalls?
Even when it does happen, it's not particularly well done (there have been numerous examples of the contractor plowing the bus stop onto the sidewalk).
I'm going to say that the GRT bus stop clearing isn't quite as much theater as the bylaw enforcement for sidewalks, but it's clear that the top priority is low cost, followed very very far behind by ensuring bus stops are accessible for users.