Plow the Minuteman bike path!

[Zeena]

There's hearing in Arlington tonight to discuss whether the Minuteman bike path should be plowed in the winter. It should! Riding on Mass ave sucks. Word is, there's a lot of opposition, so if you can lend a voice at the meeting, it would help.

Here's the 411 on the meeting and other ways you can help.

http://www.clearthetrail.org/action.htm

[Scott O]

What's the opposition's argument to not plowing it?

[Zeena]

Here are some:

http://www.clearthetrail.org/faqs.htm

Personally, I can't think of a good reason not to. Then again, I ride it to get to work most days except when it's covered with snow. Even with big fat studded tires, it's unpassable after more than a few inches of snowfall.

[AA]

I agree, plow it! It's always a mess of frozen footprints and basically useless for everyone after it snows.

[CouchingTiger]

I've always wondered why the cheap bahstads won't plow it (or better yet snowblow it). They would only need to do 1/2 of it, and dump the snow onto the other half. Then X-C skiers could set a track and the walkers wouldn't feel the need to the post-hole the ski track (as they'd have clear path the other side).

-Couch

[hogboy]

awww come on ! the best part of the year is trying to navigate frozen slush post holes or 5 inches of new cruft on the old cruft and seeing how far you can go.

nothing burns more calories, except bear wrestling

[C.P.]

I say why not, dcr plows the Paul Dudley White bike path along the Charles...at least last I checked, they did.

...course we could always get this guy (http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/pbar/organizationalchart/peterson/snowplow_files/Bike_Plow.html#Something_faster_is_needed_) to take care of the path...:p

[splat]

or get one of these

http://pittsburghmountainbiking.com/images/2007/02/VancouverSnowPlow.jpg