Comment 106348

By Fake Name (anonymous) | Posted November 20, 2014 at 12:45:17 in reply to Comment 106344

> If it is at all up for debate which is more cost effective: purchasing winter bike tires for every cyclist who uses the bike lanes in all weather/seasons, or running the city's plow and snow removal equipment/peripherals through the bike lanes after each snow fall, then the idea is probably bonkers.

You have never ridden a bike in winter, otherwise you'd know how silly the "use winter tires" comment is.

Winter tires will help with snow and slush, but they will do nothing for the bumpy blocks of ice that effectively turn the bike lane into patches of disastrously unsafe *rocks*.

And either way, *today* there are no snow-banks. No massive piles of snow that have to live either on the bike lane or the sidewalk. There are tiny ridges of snow, in the *middle* of the bike lanes (if not the left side) and not the right-hand side of the bike lane where you would probably argue they belong.

Seriously, look at York Boulevard. They ploughed and salted the car lanes, they didnt' plough and salt the bike lanes *right next to the car traffic lanes*. The ploughs are already driving up and down york boulevard, but one extra pass along the edge (which is also the car turning lane) was not done. Because of that the bike lanes are full of giant rocks of ice under a thin layer of snow that makes them impossible for a cyclist to see or avoid.... and how did those rocks of ice get there? The bikes didn't put them there, I can assure you.

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