City of Kitchener is fielding calls for the snow clearing on the Spur Line, but its the Region of Waterloo who is actually responsible for it. (Weirdly, I can’t link to the Region.)
The Spur Line will eventually be the responsibility of the city, but it is currently still under the mandate of the contractor. So things like snow clearance are caught in limbo. You should complain to your city councillor. When we (mhbpna) complained about the graffiti it took our own city ByLaw officer a day of playing phone tag and talking with people at the regional level to finally get someone to clean it up. And now the graffiti is back.
Somebody else from the city just gave me a call-back, and confirmed that maintenance on the trail is their responsibility, but Kitchener Operations Facility has decided not to do any winter maintenance on the Spur Line. Complaints to our city councillor it is, then.
The tweets got a response from Sarah Marsh (our councilor). She said the SpurLine trail will be cleaned by the city even while the negotiations with the region are in progress. I’m not sure if there were any issues with the Waterloo side of things.
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City of Kitchener is fielding calls for the snow clearing on the Spur Line, but its the Region of Waterloo who is actually responsible for it. (Weirdly, I can’t link to the Region.)
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Gotta love that confusion.
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Thanks 🙂
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Never mind a fake spurline trail twitter account…
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Finally had a moment to call the region, and the person I spoke with said the Spur Line isn’t being cleared by them either.
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Sigh. Ted Parkinson, who do we need to call about this?
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The Spur Line will eventually be the responsibility of the city, but it is currently still under the mandate of the contractor. So things like snow clearance are caught in limbo. You should complain to your city councillor. When we (mhbpna) complained about the graffiti it took our own city ByLaw officer a day of playing phone tag and talking with people at the regional level to finally get someone to clean it up. And now the graffiti is back.
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Lovely! OK, we can raise a stink.
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Right. So the city was giving out incorrect information.
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Not unusual. Ask about the salt sand boxes in the neighbourhoods if you want incorrect info.
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Somebody else from the city just gave me a call-back, and confirmed that maintenance on the trail is their responsibility, but Kitchener Operations Facility has decided not to do any winter maintenance on the Spur Line. Complaints to our city councillor it is, then.
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Um yes. That was part of the plan last year. Wtf…
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Sent Berry and Sarah a question about it on Twitter.
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That is crazy
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hello Stephen, pls see our most recent tweet re: #SpurLineTrail twitter.com/CityKitchener/…
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😢
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The tweets got a response from Sarah Marsh (our councilor). She said the SpurLine trail will be cleaned by the city even while the negotiations with the region are in progress. I’m not sure if there were any issues with the Waterloo side of things.
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Thanks, Rob! The Waterloo side has been cleared daily, so no public-facing issues there 🙂
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https://mobile.twitter.com/CityKitchener/status/808760960399921152
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Yeay! Good.
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Tweet worked.
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