Your Post-Stella Thread to Report Bridge Path/Bike Lane/Sidewalk Snow
The city isn't taking 311 complaints about sidewalk conditions, but you can vent to Streetsblog. Tell us all about your post-Stella walking and biking travails.
By
Ben Fried
10:14 AM EDT on March 15, 2017
Crews were out during the storm yesterday clearing NYC’s bridge paths and protected bike lanes — and we have the proof! Thanks, Twitter.
Our snow clearance Achilles’ heel remains the legal no-man’s-land where sidewalks transition to roadbeds, which everyone has to cross but no one is required to clear.
A lot of bus stops are still buried, too…
The city isn’t taking 311 complaints about sidewalk conditions, but you can vent to Streetsblog. Tell us all about your post-Stella walking and biking travails in the comments. (Sneckdown fanatics — you’ll get your fix in a separate post, promise.)
Ben Fried started as a Streetsblog reporter in 2008 and led the site as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2018. He lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with his wife.
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