To all,

Although I have also stopped on occasion to clear a branch or similar obstacle from the road while cycling, proposing to make trash cleanup an expected part of any group ride (sanctioned or not) is, in my opinion, setting people up for injury or death (as in, getting flattened by a car while stopping, over and over, to pick up roadside debris).
If a route is found to be hazardous, why not call FDOT, or the County, or State, or whoever has responsibility for keeping that particular public road clean, and see if they will send a crew out to take care of the problem?  Has anyone tried this regarding the area of 441 mentioned in previous emails? If you know a road is hazardous, why not choose another route, same as you would do if a road were all torn up due to construction?

I'll stick to riding the relatively trash-free roads, and limit my trash-picking to the GCC Adopt-A-Roads, where at least we have day-glo orange vests, work gloves, and signs warning motorists of a cleanup effort.

-Allyson Gill

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