If you goto city hall the lot is not cleaned

The caretakers of City Hall are City Workers also! For those of us who have to take the bus we need to not fall when we are getting on and off the bus. At the stops and the transfer point downtown. If the bus drivers have to fight the snow at the transfer station it slows them down and some people get cranky having to wait for the bus. Being a person with arthritis, I for one do not want to hurt myself trying to catch the bus! For those who don't use the bus as transportation to get arround, I don't think you really understand.

Actually your both wrong...the steps at city hall are cleaned before many areas of the city and it is done by city workers, not "the caretaker". In fact on some days the steps at city hall will get done 2 or 3 times while other areas wait to get done once, if at all. You will also notice that certain businesses get their sidewalks done by the city. The Bridge and viaduct are also done regularly. Its almost like they are covering their assets for a slip and fall lawsuit.

Every time I come on to this site I see nothing but people whinning about different things, People use your own smarts please, what would the majority of you done back when there was no snow plows, sidewalks etc,

So if a homeowner does not get the sidewalk in front of his/her house (on city property) cleared within 48 hours of a snowfall he/she may be fined. But the city is not required to clear the portions of sidewalk that they are responsable for within the same time frame? Can anyone else see the hypocracy here?? Now lets say your grandmother, who maybe can't walk as well as she used too, takes the bus on a regular basis but is now unable to because it's not safe for her to get on and off. Does she not have the right, as a long term taxpayer and contributer to the city, to being able to safely use the public transit system? Were has the city put it's priorities? Public safety should be a lot higher up on whatever list they have.

did you call your city councillor?

I just e-mailed my city counciller, waiting for a reply. Your're right TJ. Safety in not a priority in this city.
Why do we always have to wait until someone gets hurt or killed before people wake up and do something. How hard is it to take a shovel and clear out the snow nature gave us and the pile the snowplow left behind. We as taxpayers pay the city workers wages so why can't they earn them!

In answer ton enough, if I could shovel the snow I would, but I do not have enough strength in my hands to do it anymore.

As my wife and I came home last night we paid some attention to the bus stops along the way. It is kinda depressing how many of them had a nice big ridge of snow in front of them from the grader. When I lived in other cities I walked a lot in every season and all kinds of weather (even in Winterpig were the winter weather makes PA look pretty darn good). In PA walking is not an safe option and niether is taking the bus. Think of how many cars and trucks could be taken off the road if public transit, walking and biking were given more importance? For the green crowd think of the emmissions that would not be dumped into the air and for the health crowd think of the general leval of fitness that would impprove from walking a few minutes every day. A little thought about the safety of foot traffic and transit users would be a big start on this..

To tj
if you read the bylaw which you can find on citypa.com it states that the snow removal bylaw (within 48 hours) is on a volunteer basis. Only a portion of the downtown is REQUIRED to have their snow removed.... oh and you can't put snow from the sidewalk onto the city street. So, no, you will not be fined if you don't remove the snow from your sidewalk....it's just the nice thing to do.

It has been fixed

It has been fixed