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
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Chicagoland Folding Bike Society
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Dedicated to the promotion of folding bicycles
and enhancement of the folding bike experience.