The city still hasn't cleared the bike lanes and bike paths from the last storm several weeks ago. To add to that, dozens of people crashed on ice where the city has neglected to route drainage water away from or under the South Bank Path near Skinner Park. This hazard has been there for years. I guess the city is waiting until it has to pay out a bundle in a lawsuit before it will fix it.

In places that have substantial and growing numbers of people using bikes, the bike infrastructure is cleared first, followed by bus and pedestrian infrastructure and car-dominated routes are last. In Eugene, where we have lost 30% of our cyclists since 2009 (US Census American Community Survey data), we don't bother clearing the bike infrastructure for weeks at a time.

Oh, but we'll just call it an emergency and that means we don't have to do anything. Good grief! I guess that climate change recovery ordinance was just virtue signaling by the city council after all.