It’s also got drainage grates that your wheels can catch in
Wait… grates parallel to the driving direction are legal where you live? That’s insanely stupid… And not just for the safety of bikes (and other narrow tires) but just purely because of physics and load-bearing capacity.
Wait… grates parallel to the driving direction are legal where you live? That’s insanely stupid… And not just for the safety of bikes (and other narrow tires) but just purely because of physics and load-bearing capacity.
They’re often diagonal, but yes. If you catch your wheel in this you’re going to crash and wreck your bike.
Here’s an article with an image of exactly what I mean: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/the-fixer/dumping-paint-down-storm-drain-crosses-the-line-the-fixer/article_52edf415-3830-5abc-9853-49689765eff8.html
But they also come in a square hinged variety like this:
I don’t live in Barrie but this is very common in Ontario:
https://www.buildingbarrie.ca/catchbasins
Also in the rain with oil run off from the roads makes these things like patches of ice.
Fortunately I have never experienced some other than these:
Far from perfect but usually already better than average cracks and potholes found at the edge of a road.