A Plateau dad had a near miss during Thursday's snow storm.
The man, who just goes by Mat, says he was taking his kids out when one of them was almost killed by a sidewalk snow plow a couple of feet in front of his door.
"I open the door first and my kid went out as he normally goes out, so had I not noticed the plow was coming - he was 20 feet away, say - he was going very fast and there was a bit of a snow bank so I don't think he could see my kid. And my kid was just about to step in his path when I grabbed him and the snow plow just went whipping by us."
Mat said there was no warning to alert anyone to the fast moving plow.
"We just literally stepped out the door and boom, there it is, right at our door."
"It was pretty scary, the guy didn't slow down, the guy didn't see us, the guy didn't stop. He had no lights on, there was no way of us knowing he was coming."
"More of a warning would have been nice, something that anybody could see and could hear."
Mat said the plows need to either be more cautious, or have a better way to draw people's attention.
"I think safety measures absolutely need to be taken. Someone's going to get hurt, those guys are moving fast."
"Honestly, I'm not always paying attention - when I walk out my front door, I don't expect anything dangerous to happen a foot in front of my front door. So had I really not been paying attention, had the phone rang, head I said 'oh damn, where are my keys?' and had to go back to get my keys or something, my two year old probably wouldn't have got out of the way in time."
Anie Samson, the city executive committee member who deals with snow clearing, says that safety in such situations goes two ways.
"It's the job of the guy on the machine and the people who are walking."
"We have to ask citizens to be very careful because when you are in a Bombardier there are places you maybe can't see."
Samson says Mat could file a complaint with the city if he had enough details of the situation.
"We have to have the number of the truck or the Bombardier, if we want to see the right people."
Mat has filed a complaint via the city's 311 line.