An N.D.G. woman says her sidewalk was torn up just a year after it was re-done, and just a few months before it's slated to get torn up yet again.
Stacey Pinchuk reached us via YourStory@CJAD.com, and says the borough had given her no advance warning of the work that partially-blocked access to her driveway and saw crushed concrete pushed into the grass on her yard.
"I came home [one day], and there was a giant John Deere monstrosity, right in front of my house," she said.
She showed CJAD 800 photos that showed the sidewalk did have a hairline crack in it, but as Pinchuk said, "it wasn't big enough to be a public safety risk."
Further, she says the borough has been clear that in several months her entire street will have to be torn up so that pipework can be replaced, meaning the freshly-re-poured sidewalk in front of her house will soon have to be torn up and replaced yet again.
"Our street is going to be dug up anyway, for the pipes, in the spring," she lamented, "So why not just wait and do it then?"
The borough of Côte-Des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-De-Grâce was at first unable to answer questions as to why the two sections of sidewalk in front of Pinchuk's home on Hingston between Monkland and Notre-Dame-De-Grâce Avenues were torn up in the first place.
Over 24 hours after CJAD 800's initial request for comment, the borough responded with a statement saying that the original work to replace the sidewalk had not been up to their standards, saying, "It was redone with cracks. Because the work was not to our satisfaction, the contractor redid the sidewalks once again."