Clean your sidewalks

Surrey bylaws say that sidewalks must be cleaned by 10am excluding Sundays if there's been a snowfall.

My husband loves playing with the snowblower. Not only does he get the sidewalk in front of our house cleared, he goes a block up the street in each direction. And if he notices someone needs their driveway cleaned he goes in. Just loves playing with that toy. He had it out twice yesterday. Once before 10am and then in the afternoon about 4 hours later but we'd already had a lot of snow fall during that gap.

I just came back from walking my dog through Cloverdale so I could pick my car up at the mechanic's. Here's what I noticed. The shopkeepers on 176th Street have their sidewalks clear. The deserted Cloverdale Mall, that is owned by the City of Surrey, is full of icy slush. NO city crews showed up to clear the sidewalks. On Highway 10 in front of the Clover Square Village the sidewalks are not cleared of snow and ice and its already 11am on the day following a snowfall. Now I'd think that the property management company is responsible for the sidewalks bordering Highway 10 rather than the few businesses who happen to be situated closer to the road than the others such as Dairy Queen, Coast Capital, Chevron and Salty's.

Continuing down the sidewalk none of the businesses had their sidewalks cleared of snow and ice and slush. That would be A & W, Ricky's, Lordco, Tim Hortons, McDonald's, etc. Now whether the employees/management of these stores are responsible or whether or not they lease their buildings and the owner or property management company is responsible I don't know. But its a dangerous situation. Its disrespectful to the citizens of Cloverdale and disrespectful to the city of Surrey not to abide by the law. Snow removal law is the same in most cities in the Greater Vancouver Area. If you don't want to shovel snow the city of Surrey's website lists contractors who will come to your house or business and take care of clearing driveways and sidewalks. Or check Craigslist. There are many enterprising persons with snow shovels or snow blowers who can be hired to take care of snow clearing.