aka Tom Reingold
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: New York, NY, and High Falls, NY, USA
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Bikes: 1962 Rudge Sports, 1971 Raleigh Super Course, 1971 Raleigh Pro Track, 1974 Raleigh International, 1975 Viscount Fixie, 1982 McLean, 1996 Lemond (Ti), 2002 Burley Zydeco tandem
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In NYC, generally yes. Sometimes they forget. NYC now has bike lanes in many streets. When they wrote plan to put them in, they made a law saying that garbage trucks are allowed to use the bike lanes, and it's a compromise I accept. It creates an incentive for them to keep the bike lanes clear.
We have a multi-use path along the river called the Hudson River Greenway. It's the most heavily used bike commuting route in all of North America. But the northern end is lightly used. A few winters ago, it got covered in snow which then turned to ice. I got to a point where I couldn't ride or walk. The city had forgotten that people use the path or maybe they assumed we wouldn't want to. I sent a notice to the city using our 311 hotline, and I was quite surprised two or three days later to receive a note telling me they had taken care of it.