01-31-2018, 09:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2018, 09:08 AM by danbrotherston.)
https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/...lk-utopia/
https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/...te-jan-24/
These two letters to the editor are first of all, quite wrong. I know people in Guelph, who live on residential streets. They see plowing in the normal timeframe for street plowing. I also hear people in KW complain about their streets not being plowed for days, they're simply wrong. Residential streets are plowed, they just aren't black because they have less traffic.
But the most revealing thing is that they talk about plowing main roads and bus routes first as a bad thing. This just shows that these people DO NOT WALK. Or, the don't walk places. They might walk to their neighbours...or up the street, but they don't walk anywhere as a mode of transportation. If they walked places, they would know that plowing main streets and bus routes (where more people walk) is an important and logical thing to do, and that these sidewalks are not clear, not now, not in 3 days, not until the next melt will they be clear.
This is the same as when recreational cyclists suggest that there's no problem biking in the city because they tool around their neighbourhood and parks without going anywhere and it's perfectly pleasant.
https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/...te-jan-24/
These two letters to the editor are first of all, quite wrong. I know people in Guelph, who live on residential streets. They see plowing in the normal timeframe for street plowing. I also hear people in KW complain about their streets not being plowed for days, they're simply wrong. Residential streets are plowed, they just aren't black because they have less traffic.
But the most revealing thing is that they talk about plowing main roads and bus routes first as a bad thing. This just shows that these people DO NOT WALK. Or, the don't walk places. They might walk to their neighbours...or up the street, but they don't walk anywhere as a mode of transportation. If they walked places, they would know that plowing main streets and bus routes (where more people walk) is an important and logical thing to do, and that these sidewalks are not clear, not now, not in 3 days, not until the next melt will they be clear.
This is the same as when recreational cyclists suggest that there's no problem biking in the city because they tool around their neighbourhood and parks without going anywhere and it's perfectly pleasant.