Bike-towed motorized device makes a clean sweep of bicycle lanes
A bicycle-towed electric street sweeper may soon be clearing gravel, broken glass, bits of metal and other debris off a bike lane near you. Known as the Bike Lane Sweeper, the device is already being trialled at multiple locations in Canada and the US.The initial version of the sweeper was created by Pierre Lermant, a data science professional and mechanical engineer living in Sunnyvale, California."Although we are lucky in the Bay Area, and many streets/roads have bike lanes, they tend to accumulate debris pushed to the…