Tweet: Why Plow Bike Paths?

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  Cabbage Boy on November 30 at 2:30 p.m.

  probably different departments altogether. The equipment is surely different. They run a pickup with a strait plow on the front for the bike path which also doubles as a walking path.

  My complaint is the lights. The sensors seem to not have a clue how to handle snow. Did we buy sensors designed for SoCal?

  Put them on top of the horrid light design in CdA and it is awful to try and move across town.

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  moscow_minidoka on November 30 at 2:37 p.m.

  That’s right, screw the bicyclists and pedestrians! Let those dirty hippies trudge through the snow, ‘cause I’ve got my King Ranch pickup and they can suck my tailpipe!

  In all seriousness, Cabbage Boy is likely correct. In Moscow, they plow the bike trails with either a pickup with blade (which is never used for city streets) or a four-wheeler-type rig that also would never be plowing city streets, so its not taking anything away from the car commuters.

  I don’t know about CDA, but in Moscow a significant proportion of the population walks or cycles to work regardless of weather, especially when you have an end destination (like the UI) where parking is a premium. It’s no fun to walk in a foot of snow. Residents are required to shovel the sidewalks in front of their homes for pedestrian use, and I am thankful that the city and university hold up their end by plowing the bike trails that I use everyday. Otherwise, you’d have pedestrians walking in the street, and we’d get a “tweet” complaining about THAT, too, no doubt.

  This is as stupid a complaint as the people who always complaining about how the snowplow has its blade up on its way to plow somewhere else. Hold your complaining if you don’t understand what is going on, and worry about things you have control over.

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  DFO on November 30 at 2:48 p.m.

  I wonder if school kids use the path to walk home?

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  toadman on November 30 at 2:52 p.m.

  Really? Someone is asking why they’re bothering to plow the bike paths? Good grief. I sometimes wonder how much longer our species will last. Hopefully, we’re on our way out.

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  Cabbage Boy on November 30 at 2:58 p.m.

  DFO, yes, it is used by kids at Woodland for sure.

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  Bent on November 30 at 2:58 p.m.

  The way I understand it, the parks department and centennial trail folks work on keeping the trails clear and the street department plows the roads… Different resources going to each effort…

  Of course the trails are used for walking and other forms of winter recreation in this weather, but there are still some hardcore bicyclists that use them even in this weather — I saw two bicyclists on my way to work this morning.

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  Sisyphus on November 30 at 3:01 p.m.

  I agree with MM. The tweet is just about punching hippies. You get that kind of complaint from someone who parks their Hummer in the handicapped zone on the excuse that they didn’t plow it and they couldn’t see it was a handicap zone.

  In Boise, the greenbelt is just about the only thing that does get plowed.

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  Smacky on November 30 at 3:10 p.m.

  They should make a concerted effort to eliminate the bike riders altogether so that we can truly act as one in consuming the last drop of the earth’s fuel resources. Instead of plowing, the powers that be should generously sprinkle goat heads to thwart these pedal powered do-gooders. And, perhaps provide squirrel roadkill at various junctures in order to lure those rabid woman hunting wolves into their gasoline-lacking paths.

  Shakespeare may have penned, “kill all the lawyers”, but what he really meant was “bicyclists”. Really.

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  toadman on November 30 at 3:13 p.m.

  I like the way you think, Smacky. Well said. ;-)

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  Walkabout on November 30 at 3:34 p.m.

  Yes, because walkers, runners, bicyclists, and even a unicyclist like I saw the other day use them.

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  oneandonly on November 30 at 3:52 p.m.

  There are a lot of people in the CDA area that no longer have licenses…and a lot of people riding bikes whether it is their first choice or not. We don’t have much in the form of public transportation (not bashing Citilink…I love them). Keeping the bike trails open is a good thing.

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  irishman on November 30 at 4:15 p.m.

  What do I care. Got the one ton dually with the front end winch I just picked up on the cheap from the black rock firesale. Note to county commissioners: keep those high end gated golf communities coming. There’s money to be made in them thar hills.

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  girlfridaycda on November 30 at 4:54 p.m.

  Bit touchy today aren’t we all :)

  Since I happen to know the tweeter I doubt he would ever hit a hippy or drive a hummer.

  The post was made in response to the fact that the city has not touched any of the city streets, (that by the way are getting worse by the minute), but were plowing the bike paths.

  Nothing against bikers or walkers I happen to be one, but if they don’t plow the streets soon people will be driving on the freshly plowed bike paths :)

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  McWriters on November 30 at 5:08 p.m.

  Wow, I send out an innocent little tweet with a simple observation and it gets twisted big time.

  My point in tweeting what I did originally was to simply point out that I find it extremely odd to see a city vehicle plowing the bike path when the streets (which are much more heavily traveled during the winter) are in such bad shape.

  Was merely an observation - not meant to cause such an uproar…

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  DFO on November 30 at 5:13 p.m.

  @ McWriters … a h/t to you for coming up with a great topic. No need to apologize. And never hesitate to throw in your 2 cents here.

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