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From: FCC ListServ Member dayates Date: Fri 3, Jul 2009 Subject: gravel grinds short season Keeping up with issues around the state...in Anchorage there's an uproar over the lack of street sweeping this year. It made the front page of the ADN and the next day the editorial page went after the dirt. Links and first 'graphs provided below. In Fairbanks, it appears to me that DOT and the City did a decent job sweeping winter's accumulated gravel. I'd like to learn differently, if that's your experience. The most vexing gravel patches on the west side of town are found on the new bike path to Ester. For fun, and as a matter of course, high-speed 4-wheelers throw gravel and stones onto the asphalt. More than a mile of the bike path asphalt is regularly covered with gravel. The result leaves some cyclists fuming and it restricts UAF ski team's dry-land training and other skaters. 4-wheelers are banned from the path during summer, but drivers flaunt the restriction by riding immediately adjacent to the asphalt. Thanks to this proximity, muscle-powered users suffer degraded surfaces...and the inevitable outcomes: falls, injuries, ER visits. Last year, DOT had a crew of teenagers with brooms that was kept busy cleaning up after the 4-wheelers. It appears there's no funding for same this year. If you've other observations about local bike paths, I'd like to hear from you. DY June 27, 2009 http://www.adn.com/front/story/846101.html "Dirty roads, sidewalks and bike paths in Anchorage are stirring up the ire of walkers, joggers and cyclists. And the state -- responsible for upkeep on its roads within the city -- acknowledges post-winter street sweeping is going far too slowly this year...." http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/846801.html "State DOT has botched the job this year in Anchorage" ADN editorial June 28, 2009 The state department of transportation has made a total hash of this year's contract for sweeping a winter's worth of sand and gravel off state roads and sidewalks in Anchorage. The Fourth of July is rapidly approaching, and everywhere you turn, you can see a state-maintained road that is still waiting for the sweeper to arrive. As of Friday, only about one-sixth of the sweeping work was complete on state roads. (The Municipality of Anchorage handles smaller roads and streets and finished its sweeping work long ago.)"