Winter Walking and Cycling

[jeffster]

They should get rid of the contractor and hire staff. Enough already.

Not that it’s magic to have your own staff, but at least there wouldn’t be a middleman actively trying to do the least possible work while still receiving the payment.

And the LRT stops definitely should have had snowmelt systems installed. Actually, now that I think of it, I wonder how feasible it would be to install snowmelt systems in bus stops as they are built, moved, or rebuilt? The actual area to be covered would not be all that large. I see a potential problem with large piles of snow being pushed into the melt area; I don’t have a good sense of how well snowmelt systems can deal with that.

I think snowmelt systems might be overkill for bus stops, we have thousands of them, few with any electrical service...but, what we can probably do, cheaper and easier in the long term, is simply build more substantial shelters. It wouldn't eliminate the need for snow removal, but it would greatly reduce it, and also greatly improve the waiting experience at bus stops in general.

Snowmelt systems would be great, but they'd have to installed right to the curb, and even at that, snowplows leave huge windrows which would likely interfere with the system.

Snowmelt systems work great, btw, but likely should the limited to LRT stops.

Maybe we should have a citizens group that can twitter post the sites that are not maintained properly.