Quote Originally Posted by helena View Post
Also - any advice on how to go about getting the snow plough people to scrape the bike paths? "no motorised vehicles" evidently doesn't include snow machines....
I have to say first of all that you are really amazing to commute by bike in that kind of weather. Amazing.

As far as getting them to plow the paths, it may be as simple as making someone aware that it is important. City council, county maintenance folks, not sure who could help with that. I'd try to get a local bike advocacy group behind it, personally. Here bike paths technically have first priority for plowing, I think, but the reality is that we're still faced with dangerous conditions when things melt or blow. We have a lot of local cycling advocates, but it turns out that most of them are fair weather cyclists when it comes to getting behind something like plowing. But you might find others in your same boat, too.

Any chances you'd post pictures of your commute/bike setup?

Anne