![]() The group's report recommends doing a pilot project in one neighbourhood to get a sense of if it would help. TriTAG has suggested the city should consider looking at either clearing all snow and say the cost would be about $26.29 per household each year. He noted councillors were concerned about the cost of sidewalk clearing, but "what we didn't have was a debate over whether the cost was actually worth it." Other options to clear snow "Complaints are certainly something that council needs to consider and they're sort of a gauge of how happy people may be with a particular service, but what they don't tell us is how well our sidewalks actually enable people to get around," said Mike Boos, an executive committee member with TriTAG. Waterloo cyclist plows Laurel Trail after LRT construction foils city.The staff report only considered complaints to municipalities, and in looking at the complaints it currently receives about residents not clearing sidewalks, staff estimated it would be about the same as if the city was in charge of snow clearing. In some cases, sidewalks were not cleared to be bare, but instead became snow-packed. In a November 2016 report evaluating the municipality's snow clearing options, the city found other municipalities that implemented city-wide sidewalk snow-clearing had inconsistent results. ![]() The city doesn't have the funding to plow everyone's sidewalks, the city's website about snow removal said. In Kitchener, the city says staff does outreach each year to remind residents its their responsibility to clear snow and ice from sidewalk. The one street in Waterloo was left out of the analysis in the report, although TriTAG noted it saw similar problems to the streets in Kitchener. This is the list of streets monitored as part of TriTAG's sidewalk audit. ![]()
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