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View Poll Results: Is there a lot of glass on the road?

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  • There is a lot of glass on the road

    9 20.00%
  • There is a lot of glass on the road and i get flats from it

    6 13.33%
  • There is a little bit of glass on the road

    17 37.78%
  • I hardly ever see glass on the road

    8 17.78%
  • I get flats from goatheads

    2 4.44%
  • I get flats from other

    3 6.67%
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  1. #1
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    May 2006
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    Quote Originally Posted by CA_in_NC View Post
    Interesting - Just east of where GLC was in NC (~ an hour), we don't have much glass. An occasional broken bottle or wreck remnants, but not too much...

    CA
    That's because the people in Greensboro do NOT know how to drive cars without hitting each other...constantly! I swear - it's crazy.
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  2. #2
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    I rarely see glass on the road here in rural Oregon, although the only time I've ever gotten a flat **knock on wood** was because of glass. That happened a few weeks ago.

    We have pretty clean roads here in Newberg.
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  3. #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by GLC1968 View Post
    That's because the people in Greensboro do NOT know how to drive cars without hitting each other...constantly! I swear - it's crazy.
    No way they're worse than Wilmington - highest population density in NC, plus tourists = bumper cars. I did get a glass flat there, and saw lots of it. All over the roads.

    People here aren't much better

    Please tell me Oregon is better?? Please??
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  4. #4
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    Abq, NM
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    It's raining in Albuquerque and the goat heads are blooming. Big time. I can't wait- in the next 3 weeks they will be throwing spines everywhere!
    Lookit, grasshopper....

  5. #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by CA_in_NC View Post
    No way they're worse than Wilmington - highest population density in NC, plus tourists = bumper cars. I did get a glass flat there, and saw lots of it. All over the roads.

    People here aren't much better

    Please tell me Oregon is better?? Please??
    Much! In all ways!
    My new non-farm blog: Finding Freedom

  6. #6
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    Jul 2006
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    sunny scottsdale, az
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    oh man do we ever have glass on the roads. seems people constantly pitch beer bottles out of their cars and of course it ends up in the bike lane. DH had two flats on the way to church a couple weeks ago.

    a friend asked why she was always seeing bicyclists way out on the edge of the bike lane and i told her its because the sidewalk is the target for bottles and the remnants end up in the bike lane.

    the good news: as soon as i see it i report it to the city on their web site and they usually have it cleaned up within a day or so. i reported a bunch of broken glass on one corner in scottsdale and they actually emailed me back and said that location was actually phoenix, and they forwarded the message to phoenix, and it was cleaned up the next day!
    laurie

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