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Because few people would want to pay the taxes needed to have public workers do it, is my guess. Plowing streets can be done fairly quickly with trucks; sidewa
by davidw 9y ago
Because few people would want to pay the taxes needed to have public workers do it, is my guess. Plowing streets can be done fairly quickly with trucks; sidewalks would probably require more workers.
- shados 9y agoThey make small trucks to plow the sidewalks. It's what cities that do it use. It's quite efficient.
- astura 9y agoYep, they are super nice machines too, they do the job super duper fast and really well. My city uses them but only to plow "city streets," or rather "streets not in front of anyone's property and streets in front of city property" I really really wish they'd do my property. I pay a ton in property tax, you'd think they could afford it. Either way, it would be more expensive. I'm not sure if the operators are hourly or salaried but it would probably cost more in manpower to do all the streets, they would probably need more machines too plus there would be an increase in maintenance costs and a reduction in lifetime of the machines.
- davidw 9y agoI still can't see it as being efficient like streets. sidewalks are disjointed, have trees in them, curbs, and any number of other obstacles.
- shados 9y agoDunno what to tell you. It works in practice in a lot of cities, including large metro areas that get a shitload of snow.