On every snowy day for the past seven years, a Toronto man has shoveled a path down the length of his street so his daughter can get to public transit.

Ayesha Zubair struggles to get to work every time it snows, because her electric wheelchair gets stuck, and the city rarely plows her street. 

Zubair lives near Reidmount and Marilyn Avenues, close to the intersection of Kennedy Road and Sheppard Avenue, in Scarborough. The City of Toronto's policy is to only plow residential side roads if more than 8 centimetres of snow have accumulated.

While the 8-cm cut off may work for vehicles, her wheelchair can't handle more than a few centimeters of snow before getting stuck. 

"When there's snow on the ground like this, I can't actually get to my station, because my chair won't go. After about 3 cm or so, it starts getting challenging."

Her residential road has no sidewalks, so every time it snows, unless the city is hit by a rare heavy snow storm, her father gets out a shovel and makes a path along the side of the road, wide and long enough so she can get to her bus stop.

"There's ice on the road. There's a whole bunch of situations that I have to navigate through. It's hard to get through this,"Zubair said.

The city's snow-clearing policy meets the minimum maintenance standard set by the province.

Generally, the 8-cm threshold applies city-wide, but Transportation Services Director Peter Noehammer said city council could look into solutions for Zubair's neighbourhood if there's enough demand.

 "Safety is the top priority for us,"Noehammer told CTV News. "If we do get a number of calls from residents through 311 or to our offices around mobility concerns, we'll review it and see if there's anything we can do."

"We want to make sure it's done equitably and across the city as a whole," he said.

Zubair said she's called the city numerous times over the seven years she's lived at her Scarborough home, and she's seen little action.

"They'll send a salt truck through, but it's not nearly enough to get through half the stuff."          

However, the city is entering a new period of budget negotiations, where service levels will be in focus.

Toronto's Public Works and Infrastructure Committee is asking for an additional $2.9 million to improve service levels for pedestrian routes.

Zubair is hopeful the city will consider her situation, so she won't have to rely on her father to help her get to work.

With files from CTV Toronto's Natalie Johnson