After an avalanche of complaints over clogged streets and icy sidewalks, Toronto city staff are taking a hard look at expanding sidewalk snowplowing to downtown even though this year’s budget might be blown. A number of freeze-and-thaw events, which create patches of ice, have made snow removal more difficult this winter. Gray suggested her department is reviewing the past three years of snow removal spending, managed “according to the weather, which has been reasonably mild in the last few years. David Rider is the Star's City Hall bureau chief and a reporter covering Toronto politics. Follow him on Twitter: @dmrider Jason Miller is a breaking news reporter based in Toronto.

Source: thestar March 04, 2019 23:03 UTC