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Yesterday, the sidewalk along Dundas at the south end of Regent Park was covered in snow, four days after the snowfall. The street was dry as a bone, as the snow was pushed onto the sidewalk, where it stayed. Streets need to be cleared, but stuff like this forces people off the sidewalk and onto the street, and underlines that pedestrians still don’t really<\/em> matter. In the short time we were there, we observed a few people climbing over the hump and into traffic. Further east, the hoarding for the new Regent Park development provided a safe tunnel to walk through. It’s likely this specific spot is temporarily lost in the Regent Park construction, and would normally be cleared, but we see street snow routinely dumped on sidewalks in other places.<\/p>\n Also of note on Friday — garbage collection day — the big blue city truck drove down our street half on the sidewalk, along the ridge of snow between the part of the sidewalk people shovelled by hand, and the road. They did a very good job of breaking up the neat ridge and spreading all the snow back on the sidewalk, making it hard to walk again (things like this probably encourage the purchase of those awful SUV strollers). Certainly this is a minor thing when considering the workings of the whole city and not worth getting very upset about, but it adds another bit to the mental “Wow, they really don’t care” file we maintain in our heads. I don’t know what happens when that file gets too big. Maybe we stop caring too. Not yet though.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/images\/thinsnow.jpg\")
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