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Getting Bike Lanes - LONG was Bracelets for Bike Lanes?
Mike Rice wrote:
Where I live the street sweepers ignore the bike lanes, and they become collection areas for gravel, broken branches, broken glass, and all the assorted crap that accumulates along any roadway. Using our local bike lanes is an invitation to flats. In Chicago streets with bike lanes are swept once per week. Other streets are swept only once per month. Mike didn't specify where he lived. If he lives in the United States, being a citizen is not always effortless. Sometimes you have to make a fuss to effect change. That means writing letters and making phone calls to municipal department heads and politicians at successive levels to complain about problems, and organizing other interested parties to do the same. Maybe starting a Critical Mass in Mike's city would be a good start. -Bob Matter ----------- Chicagoland Folding Bike Society http://www.geocities.com/rjmatter/ Dedicated to the promotion of folding bicycles and enhancement of the folding bike experience. |
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