|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Bike trail plowing?
Hello,
If there a bike trails in your city/town, do they keep them free of snow during the winter? Regards, Cullen Appleton, WI |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Bike trail plowing?
If there a bike trails in your city/town, do they keep them free of
snow during the winter? There are bike trails around Cambridge (MA), except that in the winter some of them are ski trails. In the inner suburbs others are plowed, but that's because so many pedestrians use them. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Bike trail plowing?
On Dec 19, 8:41*pm, " wrote:
Hello, If there a bike trails in your city/town, do they keep them free of snow during the winter? Regards, Cullen Appleton, WI Fermilab does not plow their trail, so the bicycle commuter does it himself. http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/pbar/organ...Bike_Plow.html |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Bike trail plowing?
|
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Bike trail plowing?
wrote in message ... Hello, If there a bike trails in your city/town, do they keep them free of snow during the winter? The Town of Arlington, Mass., plows the stretch of trail from Cambridge to Lexington. This year a private group has been paying for plowing on the Lexington stretch too; I don't know how that is going. This was terribly controversial in Arlington, but a few years back an organized group persuaded the town to spend $20k for a pilot program that would last until the money ran out. The Public Works Director thought it might be good for a few snow storms, but that proved sufficient for the entire winter, which was a snowy one. Turns out it's really cheap to clear an unobstructed right of way, who'd have thought. The path parallels the main street in town for much of its length, where the sidewalks are basically impassible after a bad storm. The plowed path has become very popular with pedestrians. It's not always a good place to ride, though it is generally free of bike-eating salt. Disadvantages include loss of a ski trail, some damage to the trail surface and abutting turf from plow blades, and a residue of sand that makes the path slippery well into spring, when the town cleans the path. The path is not supposed to be salted at all but DPW workers sometimes do it anyway. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Bike trail plowing?
|
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Bike trail plowing?
In article ,
Chuck Anderson wrote: The city of Boulder plows nearly every bit of trail, ... and the major ones are done early in the morning. The bike trails get better treatment than most streets. As well they should. The surface area a few trails cover is minimal in comparison to the vast street grid, and you don't have vehicles parked on both sides of bike trails that keep you from plowing half the width. Just a plow-down straight shot once clears it all. -- My personal UDP list: 127.0.0.1, localhost, googlegroups.com, ono.com, and probably your server, too. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Bike trail conditions spur action - Little Miami Trail | Garrison Hilliard | General | 0 | November 12th 08 01:22 PM |
Bike trail conditions spur action - Little Miami Trail | Garrison Hilliard | Rides | 0 | November 12th 08 01:22 PM |
Brownsville man arrested after allegedly plowing car through racers. | Peter Pie Eater | UK | 39 | June 29th 08 10:40 PM |
trail-a-bike leans wrong way (was adams trail-a-bike rubbish shifter) | graham | General | 5 | July 16th 06 09:30 PM |
Looking for Route Update - Iron Horse Trail/I90 from Seattle to Spokane then Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes bike path in northern Idaho | [email protected] | Rides | 1 | December 26th 05 05:14 PM |