You can see how massive this chunk of ice was that had to be chopped out and then removed! Had the city just cleared the bike lane when the snow was still soft, none of this would be necessary
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Credit to the BU Urbanists club who had been registering complaints for over a week, entering 311 tickets, contracting the mayor, Chief of Streets Nick Gove, and city councilors: no action whatsoever It was clear the city did not care and was going to do nothing. Enough folks were motivated to show
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Everyone showed up with something, a shovel, something to hack through ice, drinks to keep people hydrated, a willingness to work together to take care of each other. Most of the work was done by hand, but someone brought a snowblower and started hacking a path through compressed and frozen snow!
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Because the storm was so long ago, and snow from the street had been pushed into the bike lane, there were epic mounds of ice. You had to chop through them with metal shovels. And that's exactly what we did. All by hand. Here's a before, and during shot
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You can see how massive this chunk of ice was that had to be chopped out and then removed! Had the city just cleared the bike lane when the snow was still soft, none of this would be necessary
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