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Where "Safety Inflation" leads
John B. wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:49:27 -0000 (UTC), Duane wrote: John B. wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:25:45 -0700, sms wrote: On 10/12/2019 9:57 AM, jbeattie wrote: snip Some years are better than other with sweeping, but generally speaking, he segregated facilities don't get swept -- or they get swept very infrequently. This is North Portland, but typical: https://bikeportland.org/wp-content/...3-1200x838.jpg Wait until those maples dump all their leaves. Adjacent landowners and landscapers love to blow leaves into facilities, too -- segregated or not. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bikeportland/10698131385/ Our street-sweeping is contracted out. If a resident notifies us about a problem with a street not being cleaned our public works department takes care of the problem Segregated bicycle facilities require different equipment since the large sweepers can't drive down the protected bike lanes. If it costs a little more money to keep the protected bicycle facilities free of debris then that's a cost that has to be paid. The City also does tree trimming, in fact I need to call about a tree that's hanging low over the shoulder of a road I ride on frequently and that I have to duck to get under. Sadly, we don't have panel trucks driving right next to the curb to knock down low-hanging branches (someone on r.b.t. once insisted that there was no need for lights to illuminate a little up so a cyclists could see low-hanging branches because trucks would knock such branches down, writing "Many small trucks exceed seven feet. One or two trucks driving down a lane will take out any branches hazardous to any cyclist"). What? Do you live in a jungle? I ask as I live in a tropical country where things seem to grow overnight and still we don't seem to have problems with tree branches overhanging roads. Yes, I often see, particularly in Bangkok strangely enough, teams of men trimming branches that overhang electric and telephone wires I can only assume that the utilities and highway folks in sleepy old Thailand must be more alert than those in The Richest Country in the World as they seem, here, to cut tree branches before they become a problem. -- cheers, John B. He’s not talking about trees overhanging roads. He’s talking about trees overhanging bike paths. And of course this is an issue. Ah, I see. But of course we don't have bike paths here, as part of the highway system, so of course it isn't an issue here :-) -- cheers, John B. Of course. Though I don’t know what the highway system has to do with anything. |
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