First world problems. – small dead animals

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There’s an app for that.
These dodos never heard of the hydraulic wing that can be dropped at driveways, sidewalks etc. to sweep the snow away from entryways?
Oh silly me….. it’s Ottahole.

At least she’s getting her street cleaned. Here in Saskatoon we may get it done in May like last year, or not at all like several years prior. Good thing our property taxs went up for more plowing.

Grew up on a mountainside. Quite by chance, we were on the uphill side of the road, and the ploughs did push the snow over to the downhill side of the road. Everyone parked on the uphill side because of a concern as to just how stable the downhill side was (houses originally build with half basements, which the homeowners promptly remedied by digging out the earth half and wheeling it across the road to an area where no houses, at which point dumped; was a culvert near our place and every time the downhill end looked like being covered over, my father would phone the city and an old hot water heater – guts removed – would be delivered to extend the culvert). However, the ploughs did have that hydraulic wing Snagglepuss speaks of, and the drivers were really good about dropping it down to minimize the amount of snow that went into the downhill paths to the houses.
We’re on a road just off a “snow route” road, and really, really wish the ploughs would get and utilize said hydraulic wing instead of leaving a foot-high windrow which is approached with caution though at speed in an attempt to break through before bottoming out.

We don’t have to worry about snowplows in the lower mainland. We spend the tax money on bike lanes … and really, who rides a bike in a foot of snow?

Calgary clears the bike paths first, part of that priority route thingy…

In places where one gets too much snow that is not an option. I grew up in Corner Brook – upwards of 200 inches of snow per year. Getting the driveway plowed-in was sometimes a daily occurence.

in the Scandinavian countries they have bike/people side walks AND studded winter tires for bikes, yup, they ride them all year round

bicycles should be banned in Canadian cities from December to april.

It has always seemed to me a sort of inconsistency to complain about the inadequate snow clearing performed on your own quiet residential street and in the next breath bitch about the high property taxes you pay. There is a huge cost for cleaning every street right down to the pavement.