Title: Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking: Tackling Winter Maintenance Track: Connect Format: 90 minute moderated discussion Abstract: This panel will explore the challenges of providing good pedestrian and bicycle access year-round in cold climate cities. The panel will address current best practices, agency perspectives on winter maintenance, and tough questions about who should be responsible for maintaining sidewalks and bikeways and to what level of service. Presenters: Presenter: Ciara Schlichting, AICP Toole Design Group Co-Presenter: Becka Roolf Salt Lake City Transportation Division Co-Presenter: Steve Sanders University of Minnesota

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Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Ciara Schlichting, AICP
Toole Design Group - Minneapolis, MN
@tooledesign

2. Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
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3. Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Illustration: Jack Maypole

4. Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

5. Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

6. Why Winter Maintenance?
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

7. Challenges to Winter Maintenance
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Dan Wasserman, The Boston Globe

8. Challenges to Winter Maintenance
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

9. Challenges to Winter Maintenance
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

10. http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ ped_bike/tools_solve/fhwasa13037/research_report/
Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

11. Removing snow and ice should be thought of as a community responsibility that covers the entire public right-of-way.
Effective snow and ice removal program
Timeframe and responsibilities
Prioritization
Outreach and compliance
Reporting
Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance

12. Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Timeframes & Responsibilities
Who is responsible for maintaining pedestrian facilities? What facilities need to be maintained, by when?
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13. Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Timeframes & Responsibilities
Source: City of Burlington, VT
Citywide public snow clearance of all streets/sidewalks:
•Higher cost to city
•More consistent/uniform level of snow removal = increased pedestrian confidence
•Clear curb ramps and medians at the same time

14. Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Prioritization
Develop a timeline for snow and ice removal and a list of priority areas.
Source: University of Albany,
Snow Response Guide

15. Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Outreach & Compliance How should property owners be educated and encouraged to comply? How should programs and policies be enforced?

16. Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Problem Reporting
Develop programs to easily report maintenance problems via various media.

17. Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Shared Use Paths
Treated differently than sidewalks.

18. Most equitable means of removing snow and ice from pedestrian facilities is to have a community sponsored program. Shift the responsibility away from the adjacent property.
Stepping Stones to Year-Round Bicycling and Walking – Tackling Winter Maintenance
Photo: Simon Law