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To your point, police tend to recommend people stay off the roads when things get bad. Sadly, it isn't an option for everybody.
by scj 9y ago
To your point, police tend to recommend people stay off the roads when things get bad. Sadly, it isn't an option for everybody.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI am not saying stay home for a month but just give it a little time for the roads to be cleared. If it snows 0.5m in 12 hours there is just no way to clear roads within a few hours.
- fulafel 9y agoYou don't need to clear 12h worth of snow in a few hours, you send the plows to work early when it starts snowing and keep plowing until the snowing stops. This is how it's done in snowy places and people never stay at home due to snow.
- maxxxxx 9y agoSure. It can be done. I still wouldn't bike during such a time. Visibility is bad, cars may be sliding around.
- fulafel 9y agoCars rarely slide around in these places, they have studded tires and drivers are used to driving on snow/ice most if the year. But yes separated bike lanes/trails, like in the article's city, are much nicer than driving along with cars.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI have lived in snowy places and pretty much in all of them there was chaos for the first day(s) after a big snow storm. Definitely not the best day to be biking. After things have settled down, absolutely no problem.
- fulafel 9y agoOK, maybe I generalized too much. What I said reflects my experience of some snowy places. Probably depends on how big snow storms you tend to get.
- maxxxxx 9y ago"half a meter of snow has fallen within a 12 hour period" That was the starting quote. I hope we can agree that that's a big storm.
- fulafel 9y agoWell, that quote was an example following a more general idea about waiting after it snows. But yes, that amount would be a big enough snow storm to make biking a tad sweaty endeavour immediately after.