A couple weeks ago we published a small piece on our online daily MooseJawToday.com regarding snow pushed up on sidewalks by city crews. The article appeared on November 18th and is as below:
“Snow pushed on sidewalks by snow-clearing city crews unacceptable senior says
A resident in Moose Jaw located on the 950 block of Coteau St. W reached out to Moose Jaw Express/MooseJawToday.com regarding their dissatisfaction with City Hall regarding snow removal and had hoped for an earlier resolve to the problem by the city themselves.
Last week, the day before Remembrance Day, the resident said that the city plowed this street and pushed all of the snow onto the sidewalk in front of the residences. The resident is a senior and told the Express that she called the city regarding this situation last Thursday, Nov 12 to complain that this was unacceptable. They then called again on Friday, November 13th to make a complaint and the person spoke to an individual who said they would attend to the situation.
Again, a call was made to City Hall this week on Tuesday and still there has been no resolve to this issue.
This senior feels this is simply unacceptable, who also mentioned there are a number of aged individuals on this street that find it difficult to move the snow off.
We are all wondering why this situation is taking a full week to address or resolve when this person aforementioned saw city snow cleaning crews on streets very close by?
It is very unfortunate that citizens of Moose Jaw who pay taxes feel disregarded by city hall in their complaints after numerous calls, and feel the only recourse is to air their problems with the city publicly.”
In the photos that were posted alongside online, it is evident that the snow was pushed onto the sidewalk by the crews and didn’t just fall there from heaven during the snowfall a few days prior.
In regards, a regular critic of our publications continually posts remarks on our online daily MooseJawToday.com to most city-related articles.
Just this past week this individual again made random absurd comments stating, “Yes, let’s go there. In that case let’s all get our residential sidewalks cleared from the city,” referring to this post a few days earlier.
I’m sure there are many in the community, if not most people and not only seniors that would agree that when it is the city crews that push up the snow onto the sidewalks, they should also be the ones to remove it! It should not be left to the homeowner to deal with.
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