Comment 84924

By jason (registered) | Posted January 09, 2013 at 08:46:00

It's been two weeks since our snowstorm and there are blocks and blocks of sidewalk that haven't been cleared. I'm cringing at seeing mothers try to walk their young children inches from the roaring cars on Cannon (the roads were cleared within seconds of the snow stopping) to school and seeing them slip and fall and land so close to the live roadway. I've seen so many seniors walking down the middle of the street and short of encouraging this behaviour (because I don't want to lead someone into a dangerous situation) I would actually love to see hundreds of people walking down the middle of live lanes instead of risking their limbs and safety navigating the mountains of ice and snow on sidewalks. Hamilton refuses to act like a real city, and there is still a mindset at city hall that 'surely anyone without a car is a lazy, out-of-work slob'. And so we have urban neighbourhoods where 50% of the residents are risking injury simply trying to get around after a snowstorm. Perhaps it will take hundreds of pedestrians walking down Main Street or King Street to get city hall to pay attention? I don't know what the procedure is for getting sidewalks cleared, but if the red-tape parade involved means it takes longer than 2 weeks, the system is broken. I suspect that it's not really a broken enforcement system, but rather a lack of enforcement because after all, if you don't own a car......

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