After the reconstruction of the bike path between Olbrich Gardens and Walter St. was announced, along with the planned detour, people on the list asked whether the detour would be plowed as well as the path normally is. I seem to recall the response was "yes, it will be." Unfortunately, this has not been the case. (And that's not to mention that in the middle of the detour period, the city chose to replace the wooden planks on the Ivy St. bridge, long overdue, but poorly timed.) Luckily I only need to use the detour once a week or less, but the plowing has been subpar. Ivy St. has often been an icy hazardous mess. After the most recent snow, Streets seems to have plowed the snow into the end of the street, apparently unaware that a bike path continues over the bridge. The ominous "walk bikes over bridge" sign is a complete insult to bicyclists. Is the city not capable of shoveling the few feet of bridge without a motorized vehicle? I have never seen a sign in Madison or elsewhere that says, "walk cars over bridge." This double standard is unacceptable in 2013. The path in OB Sherry seems to be plowed fine, at least the section I go on (through the park to Leon St.). I'd suggest that if the city needs to close a major path for reconstruction in the future that it do it during the non-winter months, if they cannot guarantee that the detour will be cleared in the manner that the path itself is.
-- "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'" --Daniel Quinn
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