From icy walkways in the Exchange to frozen and bumpy paths in St. Boniface, winter has left Winnipeg's sidewalks in quite a state. Even though it’s almost April, pedestrians around the city are sounding the alarm about conditions that be a safety hazard.

"You hit a patch and you feel the foot go out and your butt starts to wiggle,” said Kevin Klassen who fell on the sidewalk this winter. He walks regularly from the west end to the Exchange. He said sidewalks have icy, slippery and uneven for the past two months.

"It can be dangerous,” said Lois Bilesky on Tache Avenue. “Even though I was being careful, I slipped and fell and went to one knee”.

Both said they understand the city has contended with a harsh winter but would like to see sidewalks conditions improve.

72-year old Ron Burke uses a cane and is concerned about people on sidewalks with mobility issues.

He comes to St. Boniface hospital to visit family and can't believe what he has to walk on when he steps off the bus. He said the busy area near the hospital has ice-covered sidewalks.

"This is crazy, and they don't even sand any more. Other years they did," said Burke.

Slippery sidewalks and injuries

Verena Menec is the Director of the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba. She asked seniors to take photo is an effort to identify safety hazards in Winnipeg.

The condition of sidewalks turned out to be one of the most photographed hazards, worried they would fall and break a bone.

"In about a quarter of cases, there will be major injuries and that's a big problem.” said Menec.

But even worse, she warns, is if seniors don't go out at all. "Depression, you can imagine if some people don't go for 5 or 6 months," she said.

The City of Winnipeg said sidewalks have been plowed on major routes 13 times this winter, 12 on collector routes, and nine times on residential streets, and say sanders continue to be out.

Surefoot.org site taken down

Coun. Harvey Smith said he's disappointed to a tool that helped pedestrians in the winter, Surefoot.org, was taken down. The website launched in February 2012. It rated sidewalks from easy to hazardous.

“They said you can just look outside at the sidewalk, which really isn't true at all,” he said.

Smith said the site was a first in North America, and never got a fair chance, but could have kept people from slipping, falling and getting injured.