Plowed
This week we got a bit of snow. People are surprised I’m still biking. But really, in this whole transportation mess, I got it easier than most.
I just have to take the nicely cleared lane.
But there’s nothing like a little snow to show a city’s real priorities.
Give me a fucking break. The roads suck for everyone.
Mmm not so. The roads are decidedly better maintained than the bike paths.
What a great county Hennepin county is. I’d ride until it got in the single digits and only b/c I deemed it too cold for my kids to ride with me on the bike.
One of our sidewalks (we lived on a large corner lot) was plowed by a little covered gator with a huge spinning brush on the front. It was great! Our off-street bike paths (for the most part) were cleared also.
I miss living in an inner ring suburb. I miss Minnesota in general. Now I’m lucky to even have a sidewalk (the neighbors on either side of us apparently opted out) and have to wait 1-2 days before the plow comes past our house (with a foot or so of snow, they don’t even bother with a few inches).
Always fun to hear people on foot wonder how you can cycle in the snow…
Personally I can best remember how I was cycling in last year’s snow storm and as I was cycling past a major bus station, I heard someone yell “all inner city busses cancelled today!”.
Haha. Cycling was no picnic but certainly quite a bit faster than walking or waiting for the bus.
And still people wondered “my oh my how can you cycle”
Check this out: http://i.imgur.com/I2qyu.jpg
hehe
Dmitry – from some years ago: http://flic.kr/p/8VtMqc
Needed to pick up son’s bike at high school, didn’t want to get stuck in a traffic jam or snow driving.
Got run off the road on the way back by some clown in a car who “didn’t want to get stuck in the snow” and thus “could not” slow down. (Golly, when I don’t want to get stuck in the snow, I take my bicycle.)
Here in Pittsburgh the past few weeks have been pretty snowy and icy. It’s been fun riding around on my studded snow tires, past cars creeping along, terrified of slipping. But it is hard to remember to take the lane (instead of riding on the extreme edge of unplowed bike lanes). Thanks for the reminder.