I just filed a complaint with one of the local Regions about the horrific mess of debris in their marked, on-street bike lanes.
I even specifically asked if street sweepers are cleaning the bike lanes, or if they are just using them to dump road debris on.
I was told that because these roads are busy, debris ends up in the bike lanes. Fine, I can accept that.
Except...
The same and similar stretches of road without bike lanes do NOT have this debris on it. It's quite literally only the bike lanes that do.
For example:
Bike lanes:
And this just after the bike lane ends:
This same example came up closer to the urban population:
Leading up to the bike lanes:
Bike lane is just ahead:
Road debris starts as soon as the bike lane starts, and gets worse as you continue.
And magically disappear once the bike lane is no longer on the road:
I've been on that route three times in the last year, and the conditions of the bike lanes has been exactly the same.
Just to point out, I've ridden on plenty of on-street bike lanes, as well as roads with urban and rural paved shoulders in other areas, and they don't exhibit this pattern of debris physics.
Yes, some places have bad bike lanes, but their shoulders are also a mess. This just doesn't seem to be the case here.
Was I just gaslit, bad luck, or does this seem like a massive coincidence spanning dozens of kilometres?