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I, too, am happy that all the mushed down banana leaves that contribute to much slipping and sliding, curbside, when things get frosty, are gone from our Eastside street also.
However, it sure would be nice if just once in awhile the city of Vancouver went east to west instead of the other way around so that we could have clean streets before the first big snowfall of the year instead of just before the (presumably) last little one.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go outside, squint into the sunlight, and yell at the squirrels to get off my lightly dusted lawn!
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Update: Link reader extraordinare, NVG, has informed me that the CoV indicates that, while it collects leaves east to west, it claims it cleans the leaf mush off the streets from north to south...My experience travelling east to west and back by bicycle most days suggest that is not a universal cleaning down the latitudes - this is illustrated by the map at the link.
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I followed your link to the City. Seems straight forward to me that you have a valid beef, however .... it appears that the City is absolved of all things related to your street leaves because its now February 23rd.
"Our crews remove leaves from streets on a regular basis between November and January, once most leaves have fallen."
"Street leaf clearing starts in the north of the city and proceeds south."
Oh boy--
Well, in my experience riding East to West and back most days, the streets out towards the grey pointy bit of the city at the same latitude have been clean for quite some time now (one pays attention to this while riding a bicycle as that leaf mush is deadly when frozen)...
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Maybe it has something to with the elevation gain to Point Grey. Steep roads leading up to Dunbar
Ha!
Actually, I think it's pretty clear that thy go east to west within certain north to south stripes/zones...You can see that on the map where south of 33rd they have already done everything on the west but not the east side.
District of North Vancouver has a GIS database eg. Trails, foot bridges, STAIRS (you gotta love the stairs) .... AND North Shore Rescue's 46 FORTY-SIX landing pad locations for those in need for hikers, climbers.
Cycle paths, etc. https://www.geoweb.dnv.org/
But DNV GIS data is no where near that of Vancouver's Open Data Portal contents.
Your favourite, now ...
Street Trees
https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/?disjunctive.features&disjunctive.theme&disjunctive.keyword&disjunctive.data-owner&disjunctive.data-team&sort=modified&q=street
and Non-City Street issues
Forgot to mention..... in the City's database: Mountain View Cemetery
Harry Jerome
https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/mountain-view-cemetery-burial-index/
NVG--
Thanks for all...Especially the note about Harry Jerome over by the coyote dens!
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On that September day of 2013 that I walked through the Mountain View Cemetery and found Harry Jerome's resting place, I also discovered a section for those lost in the First World War, and wrote a post on Private (540398) Nelson A. Zettergreen, Canadian Corps Cyclist Battn.
"Are You Fond of Cycling? If so WHY NOT CYCLE FOR THE KING? RECRUITS WANTED"
Date of Birth: June 17, 1897
Age at enlistment: 18
Age at Death: 21
April 7, 1919
https://blogborgcollective.blogspot.com/2013/09/steven-spielbergs-war-horse-how-about.html
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