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Pae2 <br /> 9 <br /> Eugene is an avid bicycling community, so many of the city's arterials have <br /> on-street bike routes. Scheduling sweeping of the arterials during the night <br /> shift hel s us avoid conflicts between sweepers and bicyclists and allows us <br /> to clean he paths weekly. <br /> The downt wn core and arterials are swept weekly and residential streets <br /> monthly, epending on weather conditions, equipment breakdowns, and operator <br /> availabil'ty. To keep the sweepers on the street as much as possible, Fleet <br /> staff mai tain and repair the sweepers during the swing shift. <br /> <br /> ~j Chan es t Swee in Routes <br /> Redesigning the routing process was the first major change. Originally, a <br /> sweeper as assigned to a general area of the city, a 20-square-block section <br /> for exam le. Operators had no guidelines or sweeping pattern, but proceeded <br /> accordin to their best judgment. It was difficult to change operators, <br /> because hey would not know where previous operators had started or ended. <br /> This mad it difficult to ensure all the streets in each area were swept. <br /> The rout s are now itemized by street name and by sweeping pattern. <br /> Operator are assigned a route rather than an area, and they work from a <br /> routing heet that systematically covers all streets in a given area. The <br /> routing heets are organized by page and each street is numbered. The page <br /> <br />