Comments on: You haven’t lived…

By: Erigami Scholey-Fuller

Erigami Scholey-Fuller — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:16:35 +0000

@alta: I went to a private school in Halifax. We had occasional snow days (one every couple of years), but the public schools seemed to have them much more office. I don’t know if it was envy at work, but the public schools seemed to get even more.

@precious: You speak the truth. I was walking on the Glebe axis, so perhaps that ‘hood got some extra special attention. =)

@dave0: My street is the same way. Once you make it to Bank, it’s hunky dory, however.

By: dave0

dave0 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:33:00 +0000

Even after digging out vehicles, anyone living on a side street was screwed. In my neighbourhood (inside the Greenbelt), there was about 40cm of snow on the roads — enough to overwhelm just about any normal car, and some small trucks and SUVs. The sidewalks have over a metre of snow in some places, both from drifting snow, and from driveway clearing. Not from the snowplow, though… haven’t seen one of those yet today.

By: preciouskhyatt

preciouskhyatt — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:11:56 +0000

Thanks for the credit! I’m a fellow pedestrian – and this shot was taken in what would be termed part of the downtown core (under 3km to the Market) – it isn’t just the sleeper community ‘burbs, it’s the utter lack of planning and proper snow removal in any area apart from the Market/tourism centres (like Bank Street). If the city was smart enough to really start taking care of the existing urban ‘hoods they might encourage more car bound travellers to become pedestrians.

Have a great one!

By: Altavistagoogle

Altavistagoogle — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:43:30 +0000

I’m from Ottawa and I’ve never missed a day of school or work because of winter weather. Now living in Moncton, I realise that is an urban mentality. Here they just cancel busses and people just don’t bother with going to work (or even calling).