Same.
Also, the most hazardous sidewalk is one that’s kinda shoveled and then melts and then ends up covered in ice. If you don’t shovel at all, and there’s a few inches or more of snow, you might be in violation of the law but it’s unlikely anyone will slip and fall.
For sidewalks I use products labeled as being safer for concrete and pets. There are a variety of different brands available. I usually put some down if the ice begins to build up.
I have also used kitty litter in the past for traction depending on conditions.
It’s a typical 1960s neighborhood…1/3 acre lots, paved road and curbs. The original presentation by the city to residents referred to “temporary easements” for the construction. My wife and I figure it’s fruitless to try to approach the issue from a legal angle. The project is funded and is proceeding.
Traffic is a bit heavier on our street than on the adjacent streets because it’s the only one that goes from one end of the neighborhood to the other, allowing drivers to cut through our development. Still, there’s lots of pedestrian traffic on our street. No pedestrian accidents of which I’m aware. I think the family that started the petition was just starting to teach the lad to ride a bicycle. (City ordinances DO allow bicycles on sidewalks here.)
I don’t have any great fear that we’re going to be liable for everything that happens on the sidewalk, but it’s something to consider. Plus, our two big dogs already bark at everybody who walks down the street. Now they’re going to be 10’ closer.
Apologies for the hijack.
In two towns where I lived in Ohio, the home owner is liable for injuries on “maintained” pathways, but not “natural”. The idea being that if looks cleared, a person has a reasonable expectation that it’s safe. But if it’s just snow and bootprints, it’s self-evident that there’s danger.
Like I said, EXTREMELY local. Around here, there used to be a distinction between “negligent” clearing of snow. But the realization was that that encouraged owners to not even attempt to clear it.
Yeah, just one of those things about living in a community that you can’t control and just have to adapt to and deal with. At least they aren’t charging you for the sidewalk! Also, 1/3 lots w/ streets and curbs is different than much of what I encounter around Chicago. A lot of burbs have lots considerably smaller than 1/4 acre. I’m thinking sidewalks are more common than not where there are also curbs. Maybe not in the further out burbs where there are fewer places to walk to.
Decades ago I lived for a time on the suburbs of Reading, Pa. It was in an apartment complex so I didn’t have to worry about snow but a friend of mine lived in town, in a row home. You might get two cars in the width of his house.
No councilman lived on the street so it would be plowed late, if ever. He and his neighbors on that block would do just that. People would chip in money so they could rent a dump truck. All the able-bodied men would shovel and all the women would keep coffee, cocoa, and sandwiches coming and they’d move cars around until the street and every spot on it was clear.
Then some guy on the next block over started parking on the clear block. A note was left saying he had contributed neither money or labor, go park somewhere else. The next night he was there again so a more pointed note was left. The third night he parked there was bitterly cold so snow chocks were packed in fore and aft of all four wheels and the owner of the house the car was in front of got a garden hose out of the basement and played water over the offending car for hours until it was encased in three inches of ice.
The car sat there until March.
But did it return next year? 
Broke my wrist slipping when I stepped in what I thought was a puddle but was the last bit of mostly unmelted ice from the previous snow fall.
Here is a gift link to an article in today’s NYT on the topic: (hope it works)
If a city takes 48 hrs to plow all the roads then emergency equipment is blocked from getting to some of the houses. It’s always going to be that way. Crap happens all the time and people die because there isn’t the resources available to cover it all.
We had a snow storm so bad in 1978 that drifts were 10 ft high due to 65 mph. it took a serious front loader to clear these out. It was bedlam.
Major blizzard coming up the East Coast starting tomorrow, so lots of spot wars to come.
We have one car and a motorcycle in the driveway; the other car is on the street right next to the driveway. I’m surprised no one has taken the spot when I’ve been away. I’d have been pissed, since there’s usually nowhere else to park. The last storm left a lot of ice, and it was hard to clear for someone of my advanced age. A few inches of normal snow I don’t mind dealing with, and would be less mad if someone took my spot. I’d just park in front of the driveway while clearing a space.
I shoveled the sidewalk after the last storm, and the county pushed a giant pile of snow onto part of it. It’s a short street and most people don’t use the sidewalk anyway, so I just left it. It just finished melting this past week.
In the Pittsburgh area, once you’ve established a street parking spot, you may mark your space with porch furniture. It’s an unwritten law.
Spots marked with chairs are more common when there’s snow, but they’re usually honored year round.
There’s a lot of neighborhoods with little off-street parking, and houses that were intended for one family that have been chopped into apartments. Parking can be cutthroat even far out into the nice suburbs.
The last major snow was quite a mess. Even with a large snowblower I wasn’t able to clear as much as I wanted. I got a solid 1 1/2 spaces cleared before the snowblower needed repair. And someone ended up parking in my spot. I was able to nudge my car into the remaining 1/2 space I had created but it made it tough for the other car to get out. I wasn’t trying to be mean but there wasn’t anywhere else to park.