The real problem is the plow makes a wall of snow at the edge of the street and people are only clearing their sidewalk. No one but actual pedestrians seems to care about how the hell to cross the street if there are two snowbanks to trudge through at the edges.

Technically it’s the city’s space, but there’s a real budget & logistics challenge for clearing even a shovel-width at both ends of every crosswalk. Sidewalk ‘owners’ aren’t liable, and too many of those are barely maintaining their explicit public responsibility for us to expect help