What’s wrong?
Iced-up bus shelter in front of Empire Bayers Lake.
Who’s responsible?
Lissette Cormier, Metro Transit, 477-6599.
REMARKS
“Every year at this time, there’s half-assed or even no snow cleanup around bus stops and shelters in the BLIP,” writes reader Evan Morris. “Snow and ice are allowed to build up at the curb around the bus stop forming an ice shelf that won’t disappear until April.” We called Cormier Monday noon; by the end of the day the shelter was cleared, with the promise of special attention given to it in the future.
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This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2010.
After the ice, it’ll just be a mud bowl. I guess we’re just lucky to have it; it’s only one of two shelters in the main area of the BLIP. Often, this shelter will become full of ice after a few thaws and there fore becomes essentially useless.
I’m amazed it was cleared that quickly. If there are others, report them. If the mess pictured above can be cleared in less than a day, any shelter can.
Bayers Lake is car-friendly. People are an afterthought. Lack of sidewalks and bus stops in that hellhole.
“I’m amazed it was cleared that quickly. If there are others, report them. If the mess pictured above can be cleared in less than a day, any shelter can.”
….not so fast Plastic Diver Guy; I am the one who reported that mess and Patrol was a little too hasty to stamp this file “FIXED”. All that’s been done to change what you see is that a they broke a 3 foot piece out of the bank between the curb and the shelter door — no clearing behind the shelter or around it and no substitute sidewalk to take you off the street when you walk to it.
It’s not fixed; I was by this exact stop this evening. The shelter has about 10 inches of snow/ice in front of it, and there’s still no safe walkway from inside the shelter to the bus. It looks like that the only thing that they did was clean inside the shelter itself.
I have a question; who is actually responsible for the snow clearing? Is it HRM’s responsibility? Or is it the property management’s responsibility? I called Ms. Cormier’s phone this evening, and left a message about this exact issue. Problem is, am I barking up the wrong tree? Because this is an issue throughout the BLIP, not just this stop, and from my experiences, this is practically isolated in the BLIP.
You’ll all be pleased to know I was by there yesterday & all the snow has been removed.
Unfortunately it was the warm weather that removed it.