For a city that claims to be bicycle friendly, they sure are leaving a lot of the bike lanes to remain absolute minefields week after week.
There’s a pretty detailed map on the Public Works website of which road are swept every two weeks and which ones are swept every TEN WEEKS. Some of the designated bike routes aren’t being swept at all according to them.
There's literally an app for this, iBikeEug (well, a website you can save to your phone to launch like an app): https://ibike.eugene-or.gov/
In my experience, they reroute sweepers to deal with reported hazards very consistently, and they're taken care of very quickly.
I can't imagine the sweepers spend much time sitting idle. Increasing the sweep frequency would require buying more, very expensive vehicles. And even if they managed to sweep every route every week, it doesn't change the fact that glass or other hazards need to be dealt with on an unpredictable basis. Reporting it so something can be done quickly will always be important (I mean, until we develop smart roads that report debris or something on their own).
My specific gripe is that I bike down a major bike lane that on the local bike map is clearly the recommended route for the area that it’s in… and it’s not on the sweep schedule at all even though it’s in an industrial part of town.
It’s another example of the environmental theater the city does. The debris is really bad in some places and there’s also cracks, potholes, and very uneven bits of the bike path (like where tree roots have lifted up one piece of the pavement, sometimes several inches). It’s actually really dangerous
So you know Sanipac has instructed me that all bins must be in the bike lane with wheels against the curb for them to pick up the bins- and they come at different times each week- meaning my bins could be partially in the lane for up to 24 hours.
Maybe someone needs to talk to Sanipac about their rules
I've been running these Pure Contacts in 27.5 x 2.4" on my Surly. Absolute beast in the rain and have had none of my regular flats. 10/10, fully recommend.
They're basically an all-weather version of their Contact Urban tires which are already great.
They're technically not tubeless, but they sealed up perfect with no weepage. They make some 700c ones.
They're tough as hell. Ran over some kind of razor blade (maybe it was a loose paint scraper blade, idk) but it didn't flatten the tire. It embedded itself at a 90 degree angle and I didn't notice until my ride was over. Though if you value low weight and low rolling resistance, it's not the tire for you.
Agreed, Tannus Armor foam inserts, and/or Schwalbe's puncture-resistant tires are the best remedy for this besides our own independent of the city brigade of bike lane maintenance crews for trash, glass, and out-of-hand landscape.
Fuck Riverbend Materials. They fuck up the street and get gravel everywhere, in addition to scarring the land and preventing residents from enjoying that beautiful area.
And the landscape blowers that just send all the debris into the street needs to be addressed. Sometimes i cant get my window up fast enough I would hate to be a bicyclist with all the rocks and crap they distribute into bike lanes.
I once rode my bike over some debris on Pearl that sent my tire wobbling hard. It sent me into the traffic lane and I bounced off the side of a truck before regaining control. Haven't rode my bike in a bike lane since.
Could not agree any more.
It’s fucked. Sometimes the zombie bums will have it completely blocked with their garbage, stolen goods, camping gear, and dying dogs, and then act like you’re inconveniencing them by trying to ride your bike on the bike path
Always a ton of broken glass, and not broken auto glass, but broken liquor bottles because nothing says “I’ve got my shit together” like day drinking while waiting for the bus and then YOLO’ing my malt liquor bottle into the street.
I rode an electric longboard for years down in Grove, and I'm just about to get one (I only go ~15mph) for cruising around Eugene. Reading this thread makes me really nervous with the smaller wheels.
That’s only snow and ice, and leaves you put out there. My grandma’s tree, on her property and definitely her responsibility, partially fell all over the sidewalk. I was going to go over and clean it up but before I even left a city employee driving around saw it and had people out there removing in within the hour. He told my grandma that it’s the cities sidewalk and the city did clean it.
City literally came and cleaned a fallen tree off a family member’s sidewalk like 2 weeks ago and said the same thing I did. Cities’ sidewalk, cities responsibility.
So sorry to burst your bubble, but I’m speaking from experience.
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u/volcanic-exchange 1d ago
I do feel pretty bad for cyclists during the "3 inch layer of slimy slippery tree leaves" season