Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by AlexandrB on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:49PM
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This is very geography/climate dependent though. There are conditions where most people would not bike regardless of how high quality the bike network is.
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Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by BobaFloutist on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:02PM
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Are these conditions that typically can't be found in the Netherlands?
I guess heavy snow isn't too common there, maybe if we plowed the bike paths? Ok, now I'm getting distracted imagining a bike-path-plow, it would presumably be mounted on a powered bike of some sort, or maybe on those little parking enforcement trikes.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by alexanderchr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:44AM
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In Scandinavia they have an army of tiny tractors for this purpose:
https://cykelmagasinet.se/facit-finns-nu-sopsaltade-cykelvag...
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by BobaFloutist on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:47AM
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Adorable!
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by crote on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:27AM
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Bidirectional dedicated bike paths are usually at least car-sized. They will fit a regular plow just fine. Monodirectional bike lanes usually lack separation from the rest of the road, so they get plowed for free as a side-effect of plowing the car lane.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by hutattedonmyarm on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:33AM
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In the city where I live (which is _usually_ pretty bike friendly) the plow moves the snow from the car lanes onto the bike lanes a lot of the time :/
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by esposm03 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:10PM
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The effect is a lot less pronounced that you might expect. See, for example, this video talking about Oulu, Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU