On 5/3/2020 5:48 PM, sms wrote:
On 5/3/2020 1:26 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:

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I grew up in the land of the goat head, and learned early that riding
on dirt
paths and cutoffs was likely to result in a flat.Â* Riding on asphalt was
generally not a problem, although I recall having more flats then than I
do now.

We have creek near me where the access road is about to become a
multi-use trail. It's full of goat heads. It is going to end up being
paved.

Tomorrow our Public Works employees return from administrative leave and
none too soon. There's one tree that's right on my route to City Hall
that unfortunately no panel trucks knock down the low hanging branches
and there are branches at head level.

Mayor Scharf will pretend not to see this response of mine, but:

Just how incompetent does a city administration have to be to leave
damaging tree branches hanging just six feet over a road or a multi-use
path? And if it's a road, do motorists not complain, since many vehicles
(e.g. Cadillac Escalades) are that tall?

During the past year, I came across something similar precisely once, on
a lightly used MUP. A tree, roughly 8" trunk, had blown over and was
leaning over the MUP. If a person rode near one edge of the MUP, they
could have hit their head. The other edge had plenty of clearance.

Two points:

1) I was riding with a friend at night. My StVZO headlight alerted me to
the hazard.

2) Someone - I assume maintenance crews - soon cleared the hazard.

It doesn't require a lot of competence to do that.

--
- Frank Krygowski