It’s been about a week since a deluge of icy rain coated the streets of Montreal. On Wilson Street, near the intersection with Sherbrooke, residents are still waiting for a crew to clear the ice. “Old people are falling and hurting themselves,” said Susan Regan, a Notre-Dame-de-Grace resident.
“It’s insane,” said Bryanna Salcedo, who lives on the street. “They haven’t cleared the sidewalk.” City officials said they were caught flat-footed, and that the forecast indicated the ice could melt off. Officials said at a scrum at Montreal City Hall, they may be rethinking ice clearance strategies.
One resident, Kirsten McKeown, voiced her frustrations on Facebook concerning the issue. “I really think it’s a safety hazard,” she said. While she concedes the current administration has been responsive, she said she believes officials should be more familiar with the streets in NDG.
It’s “poor planning, I’d say,” she told Global News. “This tends to happen every year.” As she spoke, work crews were scraping ice up off Benny Street, blocks away.
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