Plateau uses new snow-clearing method
Plateau borough has embarked on a new snow-clearing method for bike paths, involving spraying brine, a method pioneered in Rosemont borough. Unfortunately for pedestrians, it doesn’t work so well on light-coloured sidewalks.
qatzelok 11:34 on 2019-12-20 Permalink
I am so happy to see the brine method becoming the default.
Bike path snow-clearing is very uneven from arrondisment to arrondisement. Sometimes, you can bike through Verdun on the River Bank bike path, perfectly cleared, and then you slide on a slab of hiden black ice right after the Lasalle border. Sometimes this happens in the reverse direction. As a cyclist, I know EXACTLY where this border is now.
To make winter biking safe and more popular, bike paths have to be cleared more quickly after snow and icing events, and throughout the city and major paths through some of the burbs.
Chris 12:35 on 2019-12-21 Permalink
True enough, but this unevenness also occurs for pedestrians and motorists too.
qatzelok 20:11 on 2019-12-21 Permalink
Chris, I’ve never been cruising along clear asphalt on the 20 between Dorval and Lachine, and suddenly hit glare ice after the border between them. Have you? This must have caused quite an accident.
If this has happened to you, it would certainly be an interesting story for a comment (about snow-clearing methods for cars.)