Page 21 - May June 2016 Vol 34 No1
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By Michael Andersen
Chattanooga Salts its Bike Lane
Clearing snow and ice from protected “That Kawasaki Mule is used downtown brine across the lane. That’s the way we do
bike lanes isn’t hard. It just requires some to do a lot of our herbicide applications,” it with all our larger trucks too.”
effort. he said. “We just picked up a polypro-
pylene tank from the co-op and had our Boyd credited street maintenance man-
Fortunately for Chattanooga, that’s no shop mount it on a palette so we can take ager Ricky Colston with the design. “It
problem. This winter, to keep their pro- it in and out of the unit when we want to. works out pretty well,” he said.
tected bike lane on Broad Street rideable We built a PVC pipe in the shape of an
through the snow, road crews there set up upside-down ‘T’ and then we just drilled Reprinted from the website of the Green Lane
a Kawasaki Mule to trickle just the right the pipe in a way that it disperses the Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps cities
amount of brine into the space between build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Sign
curb and planters. up for their weekly newsletter about protected bike
lanes at greenlaneproject.org.
As other cities have discovered, early
de-icing treatments can be especially use-
ful on protected bike lanes, because unlike
cars, bikes don’t tend to splash liquid
de-icers away when they pass through.
And early de-icing is especially important,
because bike tires don’t break thin layers
of ice as they form. If you don’t de-ice a
protected bike lane early in a big snow
event, the lane could be out of commis-
sion for a day or more.
Tony Boyd, deputy director for Chatta-
nooga’s operations team, said that this was
the City’s first attempt to create a machine
for de-icing bike lanes and it has worked
well so far.
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Chattanooga Salts its Bike Lane
Clearing snow and ice from protected “That Kawasaki Mule is used downtown brine across the lane. That’s the way we do
bike lanes isn’t hard. It just requires some to do a lot of our herbicide applications,” it with all our larger trucks too.”
effort. he said. “We just picked up a polypro-
pylene tank from the co-op and had our Boyd credited street maintenance man-
Fortunately for Chattanooga, that’s no shop mount it on a palette so we can take ager Ricky Colston with the design. “It
problem. This winter, to keep their pro- it in and out of the unit when we want to. works out pretty well,” he said.
tected bike lane on Broad Street rideable We built a PVC pipe in the shape of an
through the snow, road crews there set up upside-down ‘T’ and then we just drilled Reprinted from the website of the Green Lane
a Kawasaki Mule to trickle just the right the pipe in a way that it disperses the Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps cities
amount of brine into the space between build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Sign
curb and planters. up for their weekly newsletter about protected bike
lanes at greenlaneproject.org.
As other cities have discovered, early
de-icing treatments can be especially use-
ful on protected bike lanes, because unlike
cars, bikes don’t tend to splash liquid
de-icers away when they pass through.
And early de-icing is especially important,
because bike tires don’t break thin layers
of ice as they form. If you don’t de-ice a
protected bike lane early in a big snow
event, the lane could be out of commis-
sion for a day or more.
Tony Boyd, deputy director for Chatta-
nooga’s operations team, said that this was
the City’s first attempt to create a machine
for de-icing bike lanes and it has worked
well so far.
MUNICIPAL EQUIPMENT, INC. 21
313 JENSO DRIVE • KNOXVILLE, TN 37912
Roll Off & Transfer Equipment
Garbage Packers
Mini Packers
Salt Spreaders
Roll Out Cart Systems
Recycling Equipment
• Sales • Parts • Service •
Call Municipal Equipment, Inc. for all your solid waste equipment needs.
865-689-1994 (office) 865-689-7079 (fax) Toll free: 800-248-7590
www.municipalequipmentinc.com
View online at tnpublicworks.com
