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Title: Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking: Tackling Winter Maintenance Track: Connect Format: 90 minute moderated discussion Abstract: This panel will explore the challenges of providing good pedestrian and bicycle access year-round in cold climate cities. The panel will address current best practices, agency perspectives on winter maintenance, and tough questions about who should be responsible for maintaining sidewalks and bikeways and to what level of service. Presenters: Presenter: Ciara Schlichting, AICP Toole Design Group Co-Presenter: Becka Roolf Salt Lake City Transportation Division Co-Presenter: Steve Sanders University of Minnesota
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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
Photo:
www.nydailynews.com
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
Photo: Simon Law
