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Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking –
Tackling Winter Maintenance
Ciara Schlichting, AICP
Toole Design Group - Minneapolis, MN
@tooledesign
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Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter
Maintenance
Photo:
www.nydailynews.com
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Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter
Maintenance
Illustration: Jack
Maypole
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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
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Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter
Maintenance
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Challenges to Winter
Maintenance
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter
Maintenance
Dan Wasserman, The Boston Globe
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Challenges to Winter
Maintenance
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Maintenance
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Challenges to Winter
Maintenance
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Maintenance
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http://safety.fhwa.dot.go
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Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
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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
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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
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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
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Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
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Maintenance
Prioritization Develop a timeline for
snow and ice removal
and a list of priority
areas.
Source: University of Albany,
Snow Response Guide
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Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
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Maintenance
Outreach &
Compliance How should
property owners be educated and
encouraged to comply? How should
programs and policies be enforced?
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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.
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Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
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Maintenance
Shared
Use Paths Treated differently
than sidewalks.
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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
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Photo: Simon Law