Below is a list of links related to snow issues in Portland and around the
world, from our guest Nick from last night's meeting. Nick is leading an
initiative to improve things in Portland, as part of his involvement in
"Open Maine", a "civic technology" group that seeks to apply technological
solutions to civic problems. (If you are interested in this, the next
Portland meeting <https://www.meetup.com/OpenMaine/events/jmkjhqyxqbpb/> is
next Tuesday.)
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From: Nick Kaufmann <nkauf87@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: WSMAC
To: John Brooking <johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks John it was great, nice group. Here are the links:
Stuff about snow clearance in Portland:
https://www.portlandmaine.gov/1422/Winter-Sidewalks
https://www.portlandmaine.gov/429/Winter-Operations
https://www.pressherald.com/2017/02/02/portland-can-fine-you-for-not-clearing-your-sidewalk-so-why-arent-the-ones-on-city-property-clear/
https://www.pressherald.com/2015/02/13/portland-cracking-down-on-snow-shoveling-scofflaws/
http://www.zacharybarowitz.com/how-to-survive-a-sidewalk.html
https://wgme.com/news/local/portland-residents-file-hundreds-of-complaints-about-snow-ice-covered-sidewalks
https://www.pressherald.com/2015/02/11/when-helping-hands-needed-maines-snow-angels-carry-a-shovel/
Stuff about snow clearance in other cities:
http://walkboston.org/what-we-do/snow/ #clearcurbcuts
https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2015/02/a-community-approach-to-clearing-snow-from-sidewalks/385173/
https://www.citylab.com/solutions/2016/02/wheelchair-users-disabled-weather-snow-storm/459855/
https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/01/stockholm-proposal-make-snow-plowing-priorities-better-women/7977/
http://snowangelslondon.ca/
http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/improving-adopt-a-sidewalk/
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/snowportal/chicagoshovels.html
https://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2018/03/syracuse_university_civic_hackathon_winners_announced.html#incart_river_home
http://willtheytow.me/
https://hackwinter2015.devpost.com/
https://www.kitchenerpost.ca/news-story/9018675-kitchener-residents-can-face-400-fine-for-not-clearing-sidewalks-of-snow-under-new-bylaw/?utm_source=municipal+world+daily&utm_campaign=c160e1bc10-email_campaign_2018_06_22_01_12_copy_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a1ce9dc899-c160e1bc10-67144157
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 9:35 AM John Brooking <johnbrooking4@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Nick, thanks again for attending our meeting last night! I know it was a
bit of hurdle for you getting there and back, but I think we had a very
productive initial discussion, thanks mostly to your presence as well as
Eric's.
We'd love to have a list of links to the research you've done so far,
especially the ones you showed us last night. If you'd like to pass those
along to me, I'll post them to the email list
<https://www.freelists.org/list/wsmac> and Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/wsmac>.
See you next Tuesday!
