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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does snow removal work with these protected bike lanes?  Do plows launch the snow 15’ over the bike lane onto the sidewalk?  That doesn’t seem possible or safe.  So it seems like we’d be down to one lane in each direction during snow events.  What does this mean for first responders?  Has anyone thought about this?[/quote]
What is going to happen is that the plows will plow snow into the bike lanes. The one cyclist dumb enough to bike in snow will take a picture and post it to social media along side a winter bike lane in a snowy country in Europe and complain. DDOT will respond by purchasing expensive equipment to just plow the protected bike lanes that pushes the snow onto the sidewalk where it creates a real hazard to pedestrians (which means everyone). The costs of the equipment and plowing will be obscene but no costs can be spared so that one dude can ride his bike after a snow storm in the middle of winter. [/quote]

The plows will destroy the bike lanes every winter, right?  This is going to cost $10M per/year into perpetuity.  [/quote]

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