Survey shows overwhelming dissatisfaction with authorities’ snow clearance efforts

A survey suggests that most Czechs are unsatisfied with the clean up of pavements following heavy snowfalls this week. A change in the law last year appears to put the responsibility on local councils for such snow clearance. But the survey by the SANEP agency shows just over 70 percent of respondents are unhappy with their efforts so far. Just under half think that a better job was done when the responsibility fell on the owners of properties which had a frontage on the pavement. But only a third of those surveyed wanted a return to that previous system.