While having every sidestreet plowed would be ideal, for larger municipalities and cities, which sidestreets get priority? What city expenditures get axed to allow for a snow removal contingency, which may never get used, and only expires on Dec 31 of each year?Soundy wrote:The good news is that the plow did get to our street fairly quickly... the downside, of course, is that it only helps to block in the cars. It's nice having a Jeep so I can just power right through it!
Unfortunately, with larger vehicles, driver mentality changes, especially with 4WD. I saw one Jeep SUV powering down the Boundary Rd Hill (towards Marine), he tried to jump on his brakes, and slid through the intersection, narrowly missing being smoked by 2 cars and 2 tractor-trailers.
When I have driven in the snow, it's usually in 3rd.
While I don't condone people not shoveling their sidewalks, I can understand that certain factors limit individuals from doing so (age, physical capability, ability to exit house).
However, it is also plausible that people shovel up to the edge of the sidewalk, aka their property line, citing that, in response to the OP, that the road and sidewalk aren't theirs.
Having said that, when I was living in Kerrisdale, my dad and I would shovel our entire sidewalk from our front door all the way to the curb, and if our neighbours were out of town, we did theirs as well, only because our families were friends. By the same token, we also had a dog, and it was more work of us if we had to thoroughly wipe our dog down (which she didn't particularly like) before she entered the house.
For the record, nobody in my family owns a snow shovel because we all live in condo towers.
