Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 10818801)

Just wondering.....

Here, the City does at least one sidewalk in most streets. Where it's just one side is something to do with the sun. I've not worked out what, though. In our street it has always been the same side. Around the corner, on streets running in the same direction, they sometimes change which side is done. :confused:

Anyway, are there places with such a bylaw and the City clears the sidewalk?

I'm just thinking what would happen if the City did one side of the street and then enforced a law making the residents on the other side responsible for it under penalty.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 10818968)

On my street the Town has solved the problem elegantly by installing a sidewalk only on one side of the roadway.

Helpfully, it's my side and the Town clear it of snow (eventually). If it were not so I'd have left some time ago.

Originally Posted by bats (Post 10819023)

It's best to live in a street where the elderly parent of an employee of the highways department lives.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 10819041)

That might also explain why the city plow always does our side of the street first.

The width of the double blade is about two-thirds of the street, so the first side to get plowed receives two-thirds of the snow filling the street. The mess deposited across driveways our side is twice that of the other side.

That person must live over there. :frown:

Originally Posted by siouxie (Post 10819047)

http://www.moncton.ca/Residents/Snow_Clearing.htm

Factors considered in developing sidewalk priorities include traffic volume, pedestrian volume, school zones, hospitals, and churches. To minimize costs and maintain service, many streets only have one side plowed.

To take advantage of sunlight and snowmelt, the Sidewalk Snow Clearing Plan stipulates that the North/East sidewalks of streets be plowed.

Originally Posted by bats (Post 10819052)

Hm, our street in Pbro was always done and yet it was not a through route, no school, no shopd. I used to joke that Mr Plow's mum lived down there and it seemed she did.

Originally Posted by siouxie (Post 10819047)

To take advantage of sunlight and snowmelt, the Sidewalk Snow Clearing Plan stipulates that the North/East sidewalks of streets be plowed.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 10819086)

In twenty odd years the street in Mississauga was never ploughed. Many thousands of dollars in taxes per year and yet no plough, no sewer, no sidewalk.