stepping stones to year-round bicycling and walking: tackling winter maintenan

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Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking –

Tackling Winter Maintenance

Ciara Schlichting, AICP

Toole Design Group - Minneapolis, MN

@tooledesign

Why Winter Maintenance?

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

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Why Winter Maintenance?

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Illustration: Jack

Maypole

Why Winter Maintenance?

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Why Winter Maintenance?

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Why Winter Maintenance?

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Challenges to Winter

Maintenance

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Dan Wasserman, The Boston Globe

Challenges to Winter

Maintenance

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Challenges to Winter

Maintenance

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

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Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

Removing snow and ice

should be thought of as a

community responsibility

that covers the entire public

right-of-way.

Effective snow and ice

removal program

Timeframe and

responsibilities

Prioritization

Outreach and

compliance

Reporting

Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Timeframes &

Responsibiliti

es Who is responsible for

maintaining pedestrian

facilities? What facilities

need to be maintained, by

when?

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Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Timeframes &

Responsibiliti

es

Source: City of Burlington,

VT

Citywide public snow

clearance of all

streets/sidewalks:

• Higher cost to city

• More

consistent/uniform level

of snow removal =

increased pedestrian

confidence

• Clear curb ramps and

medians at the same

time

• Equitable and

Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Prioritization Develop a timeline for

snow and ice removal

and a list of priority

areas.

Source: University of Albany,

Snow Response Guide

Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Outreach &

Compliance How should

property owners be educated and

encouraged to comply? How should

programs and policies be enforced?

Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Problem

Reporting Develop programs to easily

report maintenance problems

via various media.

Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities

Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter

Maintenance

Shared

Use Paths Treated differently

than sidewalks.

Most equitable

means of removing

snow and ice from

pedestrian facilities is

to have a

community

sponsored

program. Shift the

responsibility away

from the adjacent

property. Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

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