' Obstructive Bike Lane Bollards Begat Approx. $100k Cost For Narrow Bike Lane Street Sweeper Plus $83k To Pay Bike Lane Sweeper Operator...And We Saw This LB Conservation Corps Crew (See Photos) Sweeping Studebaker Rd. Bike Lane With Brooms And Leaf Blowers '
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Obstructive Bike Lane Bollards Begat Approx. $100k Cost For Narrow Bike Lane Street Sweeper Plus $83k To Pay Bike Lane Sweeper Operator...And We Saw This Long Beach Conservation Corps Crew (See Photos) Sweeping Studebaker Rd. Bike Lane With Brooms And Leaf Blowers


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(Sept. 14, 2017, 10:15 a.m.) -- At midmorning on Sept. 13, 2017, LBREPORT.com observed this crew (photos below) using brooms and leaf blowers to sweep Studebaker Rd. between Spring St. and Wardlow Rd. where the city has installed green obstructive bike lane bollards.

The crew of roughly a half dozen young persons was supervised by a Conservation Corps of Long Beach adult and accompanied by someone driving a slow moving truck with an illuminated arrow advising passing vehicles to keep a safe distance. The human crew swept the street because the city's regular street sweeping machines are blocked by the green obstructive bike lane bollards.

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LBREPORT.com has also learned that within the past few months, the City purchased a new type of narrow street sweeper that can enter and sweep obstructive bollard bicycle lanes. We're told that it cost roughly $100,000; its primary focus is to handle bicycle lanes but can also sweep other open areas; and it has an expected life span of roughly seven years. To our knowledge, at this point the City only has only one such machine to cover the entire city. [We speculate that at some point the City will want to buy a second narrow bike lane sweeper as a spare.]

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LBREPORT.com inquired yesterday (Sept. 13) as to why the narrow street sweeper wasn't in use on Studebaker Rd. on Sept. 13 and other related matters. A City response is currently pending.

We also note that the Council's newly enacted FY18 budget (9-0, Sept.5) adds a new salary ($83,198) for a "Motor Sweeper Operator to provide Bike Lane and Median Sweeping. The FTE [full time equivalent] is budgeted in the General Fund, but will be funded from the Gas Tax Street Improvement Fund."

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LBREPORT.com will update this story with further as we learn it.

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Sept. 18, 1:55 p.m. An earlier edition of this story misidentified the Conservation Corps of Long Beach as the CA Conservation Corps, corrected in text above..

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