Walking in Waterloo Region

[ookpik]

No, you don't have to Pingstreet it, because Pingstreet doesn't let you report unplowed sidewalks!

Thanks. I'd just recently heard about Pingstreet and was planning to use it to inundate city hall with reports of uncleared sidewalks. Thanks for saving me from another exercise in frustration.

My own annoyance is the semi-derelict house/office at Queen & Joseph.  Last year, my complaints were the only two times the sidewalk was shoveled all winter.

In my experience the owners of derelict properties, construction sites and vacant lots somehow seem to get the impression that they're exempt from the snow clearing bylaw until and only if someone reports them. Second place goes to absentee landlords of rental properties, especially single family houses and n-plexes, who leave the responsibility to their tenants even though it's the property owner who has the ultimate responsibility.

A (distant) third place to home owners who go away for a week or three in the winter. I have a small amount of sympathy for them because they can't hire a snow-clearing company for such short periods. But even they now have options, e.g. TouchPlow offers on-demand snow clearing.

Fourth are people who have physical disabilities that limit their ability to clear their sidewalks. They have some options too.

But the point is that all of these situations are just arguments in favour of city-wide sidewalk plowing.