Dear editor:
My husband and I have the luxury of working from home on a snow day like [Wednesday, Jan. 15], but not everyone can.
We live on a notoriously steep, busy hill [29th Street] that is an essential bus route and pedestrian route, especially for kids going to the nearby elementary school. This morning, between 9 and 10:30 a.m., I shovelled the sidewalk for our entire block.
No one had shovelled.
Now that I’ve got the sidewalk down to the concrete, I would like to remind my neighbours to keep up with snow removal.
If not, many people will be using the roadway to walk, such as this woman and infant and one other person while I was out there.
There are hedges on 29th Street and retaining walls at property line, so with this much snow there is only about 18 inches to pile snow on the sidewalk beside the road. I did throw very light snow (that would quickly melt) onto the roadway in places.
Anyone who lives here knows that any snow of substance thrown on the roadway gets thrown back by the plow to the sidewalk. I did my best to pile up snow on the 18-inch-wide area, which is now knee high.
A man in a small car took the time to stop on the road opposite of me, roll his window to tell me that it is illegal to throw snow on the roadway. If so, I was not in the right, true, but his righteous comment was unwarranted.
Karenn Bailey
North Vancouver
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