There is a hill to the left so it’s actually really hard to walk through. Don’t wanna go in the parking lot cause of my dog. It’s a great trail connecting 2 parks but the section by the mall is not respected by the snow plows.
Would be such a shame to have to keep their snow on a row of unused parking spots! (This is the back side of our mall so no cars almost ever)
It’s winter. What do you expect?
The park (and trail) isn’t owned by the mall, if they pushed snow into your backyard you might have a problem. I don’t think “snow has to go somewhere” is a good enough excuse to abuse a public space
His problem it’s not the snow itself, but the fact that the snow has been moved onto a walkable trail to clear some parking spots.
The snow has to go somewhere
So you’d be OK if they buried your driveway in the entire streets snow then.
I’m general I agree, but apparently this is a private company (the mall) using a private contractor (the plow) to push waste onto public property (the trail). This assumes the trail is official and not on mall property, because then the mall can do whatever they want.
I bet the plow company has no clue there’s a trail there and the mall doesn’t actually walk back there and look. This is ultimately wrong but probably occurs simply due to ignorance. This is a people problem first and foremost, with car usage being the vector.
As much as this is an ignorance problem, the problem still wouldn’t exist is the mall didn’t maintain a parking lot all winter that barely sees use as it far larger than it needs to be. The parking lot being larger than it needs to be is a direct result of car centric planning and bogus parking minimums.
It can go into some of the parking spots.
Putting it onto a walkable trail it’s not the best option. Leave it on some parking spots, there are plenty of those as OP said.
For them to pile the snow up in a few corner spaces like normal people instead of littering. You know, like everyone else fucking does.