The iciest sidewalk in town is in a place where it never snows an underpass beneath the Gardiner Expressway.

We had a small break last week from the brutal winter weather, which gave the city a chance to get caught up on clearing sidewalks that were coated with hard packed snow, glazed by ice.

But the effort to clear a backlog of sidewalks that hadnt been shovelled seems to have missed a section of The East Mall that runs through a Gardiner underpass, south of The Queensway.

A reader posted a report last May on SeeClickFix about water oozing from a retaining wall on the west side of the underpass, saying the sidewalk is always flooded and slippery, (and) lane two of the road is always flooded.

Its been this way for years, said the reader, noting that the city has never taken an interest in fixing it.

We forgot about it until this week, when we found new comments posted to the report last week about an icy moonscape on the sidewalk.

As of Jan. 18 the sidewalk is impassable, said the reader who made the original complaint. All pedestrians have to walk on the east side of The East Mall.

If someone is injured they can use this report to prove the city has had ample notice of the problem and failed to do anything almost a year later.

Someone with mobility issues is going to get hurt trying to navigate the sidewalk.

We went there on the weekend and found a small glacier in the curb next to the road, which goes on for a distance of 20 metres or so and extends onto the sidewalk.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C.

The state's Department of Transportation is trying to figure out who will have to pay to repair a culvert that gave way under a parking lot in north Charlotte early Friday morning causing a sinkhole that swallowed up a retaining wall and sidewalk.

The culvert carries Little Sugar Creek under the old Tryon Mall and along North Tryon Street. A caller reported that the retaining wall had collapsed there about 1 a.m.

By 10 a.m., the NC DOT and other agencies had engineers on the scene, trying to find out what had caused the collapse.

"Right now we don't know. There's a culvert that runs under here but it's too early to tell," said Jeff Littlefield, who supervises maintenance for the NC DOT in Mecklenburg County.

Littlefield said late Friday that they had managed to look under the roadway and saw that the culvert had collapsed, but were not sure if it was under private property or public right of way, so they weren't sure who would have to pay for the repairs.

Either way Littlefield said the work would not begin before Tuesday and would require a contractor that specializes in major bridge repair work.

"We'll definitely have to excavate it and at very least put in a new junction box, but again we'll know more once we get in the culvert," Littlefield said.

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It has been five weeks since a falling retaining wall forced four families from their Covington homes. As of Friday, those families are still displaced but the city says progress to fix the mess is being made.

For five weeks now, the 3400 block of Caroline Avenue has been closed.

Crews spent Friday surveying the damage caused when a retaining wall broke away from the hillside December 13. Mary Turner and her husband woke up to a broken water main, a busted gas line and the hillside in front of their home crumbling.

"The young lady that lives at the end of the street woke me up at a quarter to five banging on the door saying, 'get up! Get up! The wall fell!' I got up and opened my bedroom door and there is water just gushing everywhere and within about ten minutes, there is a sidewalk out there. The sidewalk just disappeared," says Turner.

Due to safety concerns, the families that live on Caroline Avenue have been staying with relatives or renting apartments. With no running water, electricity or other utilities, the Turners have been forced to live in an apartment above their lawyer's office until it's fixed but they still are not sure when that will be.

"It's the uncertainty. That's the worst. No one has offered to give us any help or to do anything for us at all. Every time you ask someone, they give you a different date," says Turner.

But there has been progress. In an update sent out by the city of Covington Friday, officials estimate residents could be back in their homes by the end of the month. A project that would normally take 6 months may be finished in a matter of weeks.

"It's just the inconvenience," says Turner.

It is a quick fix Turner says isn't coming quick enough.

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