Photo by randomduck on Flickr.

If your home has sidewalks which aren’t yet shoveled, clear them today! It’s warm and will be relatively easy to clear snow, but tonight anything left will freeze and turn into solid ice. So get that pedestrian path cleared (and wide enough for multiple people to pass, people in wheelchairs and strollers, etc.) today.

Along my route to and from the Metro this morning, I want to thank the Dupont East Condominium, National Women’s Democratic Club, and Mathematical Association of America for getting their long corner sidewalks cleared this morning. Perennial scofflaw the Embassy of Botswana still hasn’t cleared their three sidewalks on 18th, Q, and New Hampshire.

If you see sidewalks still uncleared tomorrow morning, whether private, federal, DC government, WMATA, foreign mission, or otherwise, please take pictures and send them to info@ggwash.org. We’ll put the worst offenders in a Sidewalk Snow Clearing Hall of Shame like these from past years.

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Tagged: pedestrians, sidewalks, snow, weather

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.