For the walkway. If city does not shovel it, you have to shovel it. For most new building area, it either does not have walkway or if it has walkway, city will shovel it.
And for the bus on you street. It would be more noise at day time, but at night time bus stops, it is usually ok. The advantage of that is city will shovel the street more early. The street usually would get shoveled before you go to work, other street without bus service, good luck with that. They would be the last one.