Bike Share in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Not really about sidewalks and bike lanes but it is about Montreal snow removal:

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/articl...ing-winter

 I grew up in a small suburban town on Montreal's South Shore in the '50s and 60's. After a snow storm, the sidewalk on at least one side of the road would be plowed within a day. The mounds of snow plowed to the curb would be thrown with a snowblower onto the front yards of the houses on the street within a week.

That is very interesting, in the house I lived in, the city did occasionally need to remove snow from the roadway (or felt they did, I liked having narrower roads mind you), but they always went to the expense of trucking it away. Just blowing it into yards would be much cheaper, although I imagine they would get a lot of complaints.

There's a tie back here to people who claim to be fiscally conservative not being so...but you guys can fill in the blanks.