10-26-2021, 02:50 PM
(10-26-2021, 02:03 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(10-26-2021, 01:43 PM)ac3r Wrote: I'll be curious to see how they deal with snow in this particular bike lane downtown come wintertime. The road plows will no doubt push snow into three bike lanes, so I suspect there will be some days it's covered, unless they will have a dedicated mini-plow clear them up ASAP. I'm not sure if those things even spread salt, so they might end up fairly icy.
I would expect that the downtown sidewalk plows can clear this one, at least ... but the question really applies to all the new bike lanes.
I believe they plan on using larger vehicles to clear snow, that's why they wanted them 3m wide with no bollards, that way they can use pickup trucks to clear snow, and do it in one pass.
As an FYI, all these vehicles can lay salt, pedestrians are well aware of this, it's part of why city cleared sidewalks are so much safer.