When residents block laneways

   A major benefit of laneways is that firefighters and other emergency staff can access that alternate entrance to your home in case of emergency or animal attack or some other form of bedlam.
   But city workers don't clear snow from laneways, so they can be passable or impassable depending on how the local residents approach things.
   But this sort of thing, seen in the photo is dubious and likely widespread.
   One resident, who happens to have snow clearing equipment, has manipulated the snow to his advantage, pushing it in a way that benefits himself but cuts others off from their own routes.
   Anybody trying to get over those two hills had better be prepared to do some climbing and slipping or else go around the block.
   I might spend the next few minutes on the buzzer attempting to inquire as to the legalities of such an unneighbourly approach to laneway maintenance be or else whimsically daydream on the day that all that snow melts and spring returns.