Broken glass on Cincinnati roads

Dr. Phil Is Weird

Anyone else notice this?

Roadways and sidewalks in and around Cincinnati seem to be covered with
broken glass, and nobody ever seems to clean it up.

Particularly problematic lately is the area along US 50 from Mill Creek
to Anderson Ferry. There's at least one glass pile that's been there for
several weeks and hasn't been cleared away.

As a result of this, I have had 4 flat tires in the past 10 days. I'm
getting damn sick of having to buy new inner tubes all the time, and I
am seriously considering billing the state, county, and city for
damages.

I strongly suspect somebody is intentionally dumping glass there,
because there's never actually any glass in the middle of the roadways.
Instead the glass is always on the sides of the roads where bikes are
most likely to be.

Ben Pfaff

mister1900mister@hotmail.com (Dr. Phil Is Weird) writes:

> Roadways and sidewalks in and around Cincinnati seem to be covered with
> broken glass, and nobody ever seems to clean it up.
>
> Particularly problematic lately is the area along US 50 from Mill Creek
> to Anderson Ferry. There's at least one glass pile that's been there for
> several weeks and hasn't been cleared away.

Have you reported it to whoever is responsible for clearing it
up? If, as you say, it is in the part of the road mostly used by
bikes, it seems to me like it could have been overlooked.
--
Ben Pfaff
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org

alan

Motor vehicle tires sweep the travel lane free of glass and debris. It
collects on the shoulder and to a lesser extent, out at the centerline.
Just ride in the right hand tire track.

--

alan

Anyone who believes in a liberal media has never read the "Daily Oklahoman."


"Dr. Phil Is Weird" <mister1900mister@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4082046d.26664406@news.individual.de...
> Anyone else notice this?
>

> I strongly suspect somebody is intentionally dumping glass there,
> because there's never actually any glass in the middle of the roadways.
> Instead the glass is always on the sides of the roads where bikes are
> most likely to be.
>

Dane Jackson

Dr. Phil Is Weird <mister1900mister@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone else notice this?
>
> Roadways and sidewalks in and around Cincinnati seem to be covered with
> broken glass, and nobody ever seems to clean it up.

Mental note: Make sure to pack a good patch-kit for my trip next
month to Cincinnati.

> I strongly suspect somebody is intentionally dumping glass there,
> because there's never actually any glass in the middle of the roadways.
> Instead the glass is always on the sides of the roads where bikes are
> most likely to be.

Well, as someone else mentioned, that more likely due the sweeping
effect from car tires. More telling is when there is smashed bottle
glass at the entrance/exit to MUP's and such. There should be special
place reserved for people like this. [1]

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IBM Advanced Systems Group -- a bunch of mindless jerks, who'll be first
against the wall when the revolution comes...
-- with regrets to D. Adams