Thanks. BTW, Baltimore City does a better job of this (maybe not perfect) at least in the Penn Station area vis-a-vis the Union Station area in DC.

I thought your snow removal efforts if you can all them efforts on sidewalks was terrible. I realize it was a lot of snow, but you could have at least tried to remove stops in front of schools (for children) and stops in front of hospitals. (elderly and handicap) I lived in Buffalo, New York for ten years of my life and I do remember them immediately removing the snow from major bus stops. When I say major I mean those where there were many pedestrians. The other bus stops came later. Maybe you need to send someone to cities like Buffalo, Boston, Chicago and Canada and they can tell you how to remove snow from bus stops because obviously you don't know how.

Aren't home owners legally responsible for clearing their sidewalks? I know that the City is petrified of enforcing laws that are routinely broken--it would offend too many voters--but hopefully a safety issue can warrant enforcement. After all, a sidewalk that is two to four feet deep in snow is impassable and a sidewalk that's melted down to a foot of snow becomes icy and extremely dangerous. Then there are the many people who shoveled the path to their door but not the sidewalk in front of their house... So has the City been ticketing these people?

(There was an article in the Sun a week or two ago about the City threatening to do this downtown--if they did, credit to them.)

I'd like to see the city crack down on people and businesses that haven't cleared their sidewalks and I'd really like to see a significant fine for anyone who has an uncleared handicapped ramp as part of their sidewalk.

I agree that the emphasis should be on moving people as opposed to merely vehicles while imploring people to explore their alternatives. However, even if the Transit Agency was up to the role, I get the vibe that all too many people would expect that these alternatives are things that only other people should explore - not themselves. It was evident to me watching from the bus all the single occupancy vehicles choking the roads in this last episode. Perhaps the ideal irony to me is reading this blog entry focusing on transit needs and seeing an animated Jack Antwerpen in the right margin ad dancing for my attention to buy a new car. Ay, yi, yi!

Saul Wilson,

I dutifully shoveled my sidewalk in each of the storms this Winter, but on the morning after the last blizzard (February 12th?), the workers who plowed the street pushed all of the snow from the street onto the sidewalks, creating a 5-foot high wall of well-packed, icy snow. There is no way I and my wrenched back could undo this machine-made construction.

I noticed this same trade-off was made on other streets; it allowed for more than one lane of traffic but forced pedestrians into the streets.

This was why many school districts delayed the start of school for 2 hours each day during the week that followed, so that the schoolchildren would not have to combat rush-hour traffic while walking to school or waiting for the bus.