The idea of homeowners being responsible for clearing sidewalks in front of their homes is not winning any fans on our Facebook page.
Nick calls it a very bad idea saying residents don’t own the sidewalk in front of the house, the city does and it likely wouldn’t be completely shoveled or salted so you would see more people slipping and falling.
He adds how can you expect poor elderly people to go out in the cold and shovel a sidewalk and break a hip just to save the city a buck.
Maranda goes to school in Halifax and says its a by-law there.
From her view, it works very well but she lives on a street without sidewalk.
She adds there are often patches of sidewalk downtown that are not shoveled within the 24 hours after a snowfall but its easy to walk through because the city comes around and plows back the remainer of the snow.
She thinks it’s unreasonable to think that the city can plow ever sidewalk in the 24 hours after the snowfall.
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