Pavements + Snow
 

Silly one really.
Snow around for 3-4 months of the year in various parts. I guess you don't walk around like a stuffed duck's on tiptoes trying to not fall over on the ice covered pavements like we have in the softy south (Kent). From what I have managed to see, and it is very little, the pavements and public areas such as shopping precincts/malls seem to be walkable/free of ice and snow. Seems to be shifted to verges and grassy areas. I guess you can't have people falling breaking things every 5 minutes. How on earth does this all happen. Is it all moved by shovel or is there some magic to play? Is Canada the salt consumer of the world?

Pavements in front of homes I guess is a different matter and the responsibility of the owner...YES/NO? Is there rules to govern this?

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Originally Posted by SANDRAPAUL

Silly one really.
Snow around for 3-4 months of the year in various parts. I guess you don't walk around like a stuffed duck's on tiptoes trying to not fall over on the ice covered pavements like we have in the softy south (Kent). From what I have managed to see, and it is very little, the pavements and public areas such as shopping precincts/malls seem to be walkable/free of ice and snow. Seems to be shifted to verges and grassy areas. I guess you can't have people falling breaking things every 5 minutes. How on earth does this all happen. Is it all moved by shovel or is there some magic to play? Is Canada the salt consumer of the world?

Pavements in front of homes I guess is a different matter and the responsibility of the owner...YES/NO? Is there rules to govern this?

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Hi

There are mini snow plow and snow blower for the pavement!!

regards

MCC

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Yes and yes. Municipal bylaws are the usual way this is governed. It usually comes down to this: make sure the sidewalk along your residence is clear of snow and ice because if it's not, a litigious person might wipe out on it and sue your ass. :)

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This doesn't do everywhere where we live which is a bit annoying as I have a pushchair to take around on my walks and there are plenty of lazy people who don't bother clearing.

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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but just to confuse matters, I believe in Canada they walk on "side-walks", and "pavements" are roads!!! :p

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No, Canada is not the US :D

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That's very reassuring! :D

However, according to the folowing site:

http://www.luther.ca/~dave7cnv/cdnsp...nspelling.html

I am not mistaken! :cool: ..any more votes on the subject? :)

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Where I live pavements are called pavements and roads are called roads, LOL!! We also have cheques and the bill, not checks and the check!

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I've only ever heard sidewalks mentioned here and not all residential areas have them anyway. We certainly don't.

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In Regina the path across the front of your house - the thing you walk on - is called the sidewalk.

If someone was told to clear the pavement in front of their house, they would think it meant the street/road.

I don't think people refer to it as "walking on the pavement" meaning walking in the road. But certainly they would not understand pavement to mean the path in front of your house!!

If you see what I mean!?

What happens in Regina in a year like this when we have quite a bit of snow. The graders come along and pile the snow at the side of the road - hence the roads instead of being a parking lane on each side as on our street - are now huge piles of snow on each side with a narrow driving lane down the middle.

On the busier streets they come along with a big snow blower and blow the snow into huge gravel trucks and haul it away to a dump. On the side streets - us people who pay the taxes - just have to put up with it!

We have had two accidents this year. One child slid down a snow pile and under the wheels of the school bus he had just got off! He had broken legs. The other child was playing on a toboggan in a back alley and slid under a car and died a week later.

I went and bought some Merrill winter kind of runners with ground grips on the bottom but I certainly don't go for a walk when its icy like this.

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Yes, sort of. Sidewalks are what people walk on. Roads are roads. Pavement is more of the material roads or other paved areas are made of. "I fell off my skateboard and skidded along the pavement!" -- the pavement could be a road or part of a skateboard park, it's not a very specific noun in Canadian English (at least not in western Canada).

Pavement is also an excellent band and I highly recommend their album 'Crooked Rain Crooked Rain' :).

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I second that....sidewalks are english pavements...in Canada the pavement is the top coat of asphalt and tar used on roads. So roads are...roads :D

If you have your driveway paved...it is with these materials. Most highways are paved...not with gold...but with tar and ashpalt.

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...... so Sarah must live in a particularly "English" quarter of Burlington!! :D

I meant that...about the road surfaces, I mean. I have seen ads for properties which claim "pavement", ie made-up road. rather than dirt track! ;)

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Lol I think we are on the same wave-length :p

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you could always invest in some things for your boots, yaktraks i do believe they're called, fits on your boots and gives you extra grip by digging into the ice when you walk... but in the city? if you're under 25, you wear trainers and just slide along... :)