Major and minor “Arterials” are what US traffic engineers are taught to call a cities roads 🫀🚗. It equates a life giving importance, and any congestion to heart attacks and death.
Lg Sm “Intestines” 💩 🚗 would be more fitting. They’re toxic/smelly. Not the lifeblood of a vibrant city.

19.03.2025 23:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d love to see a separate unpaved skate ski path groomed along the creek routes. It could converge with the pathway at bridges and tunnels with snow classic tracks as we see regularly at our tunnels.
But, yes a plowed pathway with classic track sides would be more accessible and resilient.

28.01.2025 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(🧵🪡2+:2)
Maintenance try’s to clear the pack in the spring, but it is exhaustive and hard on equipment. Therefor we see unusable trails when folks are most wanting to get outside, the roads still have lots of gravel and muck on them, and drivers are testing acceleration limits of newly dry roads.

27.01.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Although this is a weird (new normal?) weather year, every year the compacting snow strategy leaves our urban trails with a heavy base of snow and ice. This leads to weeks/months in the spring where our safest non motorized arterials are deep slush and ice and aren’t really usable to anyone (🧵🪡 2:2)

27.01.2025 18:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For Anchorage’s urban trail network: pathways that are compacted all year for skate skiing are thick solid ice. Trails left alone or plowed are bone dry. It’s a stark difference and when you see it you can’t unsee it (🧵🪡 1:2)

27.01.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

The weeks of solid ice greenbelts calls into question the resilience of grooming them for skate skiing. Imagine a cleared pathway with classic sleek tracks on both sides. Much more useable to the vast majority of user groups.

19.01.2025 08:24 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With Anchorages increasing Icy winters and shoulder seasons, I thinks it time to make the investment to maintain our pathways. Can we get excited about ice breakers enough to push a grant for a pilot project? Do the epic cinema scenes help?

19.01.2025 08:17 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

No matter how “walkable” your city requirements are for private developments. If the street isn’t actually walked, they’ll just lock those doors.

13.01.2025 17:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0