04-20-2018, 07:35 AM
(04-19-2018, 09:50 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote:(04-19-2018, 03:53 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Any such post is flagrantly incorrect, as a factual matter. All over the city there are sidewalk and path segments that are completely bare due to motorized snow removal. Maybe they are assuming no use of melting agents whatsoever. Anyway, even if that were true, the fix would be to either hire a bunch of people to follow the mechanical removal, or make individual property owners responsible for getting the sidewalks down from the 1cm or whatever left by the plow down to bare concrete. There is simply no legitimate argument for not getting rid of most of the snow using plows.
Here's the post if anyone is interested. It's written by someone who used to work for a snow removal company and claims motorized snow removal is wholly adequate and the cities should instead focus on bylaw enforcement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterloo/commen...e/dxmx7ma/
That wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I was expected utter nonsense, of the sort that makes one wonder how the author is able to keep themselves alive. Instead, it seems the author actually has some experience with snow clearing and has raised some interesting and relevant points.
However, they still provide no explanation of why an expansion from the many kilometres of sidewalk already cleared by the city to all the sidewalks can’t be done. The paths and sidewalks already cleared are usually in pretty good shape, even typically being completely bare within a few days of a snowfall. Even if the mechanical clearing can’t get it right down to the ground (which it can, so this sentence is moot, but whatever), getting rid of the bulk of the snow would be a major improvement. So I’d say this is a case where the facts on the ground (literally) trump one person’s specific experience and theorizing.