Originally Posted by RobCat
After a couple of days, just when the missus and I decided we would clear the debris ourselves (it's true!) we discovered that someone else had apparently done it. City? Or perhaps a group such as Shift took it upon themselves. A pleasant surprise regardless, since the bike lanes around town tend to collect all manner of objects...
How often the city regularly cleans the streets has a lot to do with the neighborhood you live in. Nevertheless, I know of at least three organized efforts by Shift members to clean bike lanes after the recent storm; I participated in one of them (cleaning the ZooBomb runs - the other two efforts I know about were on the Hawthorne viaduct and on NE Broadway), and loaned supplies (brooms and safety gear) for two of the cleanups. It took the city WAY to long to clean the most heavily used bike lanes and bike routes after the storm - they very quickly spread the gravel for the safety of motorists during the storm, but took their sweet time to clean it up later for the safety of bicyclists - another example of our society's motorist-first mentality. I spent over a week badgering the city to clean the bike lanes on the bridges, and ended up writing a letter to the mayor's office about it, after I had a close call with a bus due to the gravel in the bike lane. (See this thread for a description of my incident w/ the bus:
http://64.191.20.129/showthread.php?t=44474 )