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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Bike in the darn street, if it it that important to you.[/b] Did you notice that not all residents have cleared their sidewalks? Things don't run perfectly in winter weather - at least we have electricity and water!![/quote]

This. Bike with all the other cyclists who continue to clog roads even when there is a bike lane, nice and dry, right next to them.[/quote]

Do you not know how to read you dolt? [b]The bike lanes are covered with ice. Pushed there by snowplows clearing the street for CARS[/b]. 
Idiot. [/quote]

So when the snow fell, it only fell in the car lanes and bypassed the bike lanes?  [/quote]

I can tell you’re being facetious, but I’ll address the issue because you’re to dull to grasp it.

It’s a two-part problem.

1) there is no fleet of small plows to clear the bike lanes. The ideal solution would be a large fleet of small vehicles the size of garden tractors, with small plows on the front which are narrow enough to fit down the bike lanes, to clear them of snow. Currently there is zero capacity for this. The smallest plows in DC are still mounted on gigantic pick up truck type vehicles. And the city calls these “small plows”! They are twice as wide as the bike lanes. Utterly useless.

2) in addition to the snow that falls in the bike lane and can’t be cleared, the plows clearing the street (for cars :roll: ) push the ice and snow out of the street and heap it into the bike lanes, where it can sit for weeks before it finally melts. So it’s not just a question of the bike lanes having ice in them the day it snowed, but then days and days afterwards.

If the city would buy a fleet of small plows to clear the bike lanes, that would solve the whole problem.

Although police should still be ticketing people who walk in the bike lanes, too. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to scream at people who walk in the bike lanes as though they own it. They think it’s a sidewalk rather than a land reserved solely for cyclists. [/quote]

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