Much of Scandinavia (at least Denmark and Sweden) manages this by having small snow-removal vehicles specifically for bike lanes: http://www.copenhagenize.com/2

Much of Scandinavia (at least Denmark and Sweden) manages this by having small snow-removal vehicles specifically for bike lanes: http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/12/ultimate-bike-lane-snow-clearance.html http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/12/ultimate-bike-lane-snow... In fact in Copenhagen at least the bike lanes are cleared much more reliably than the road. The city owns many more of these bike lane snow-removal vehicles (which are small and fairly cheap) and only a few of the big road-plowing trucks. Salting the bicycle lanes also takes less salt, so tends to be done more readily.