Some alternate interpretations of your experience: 1. It’s possible your sampling is biased. I.e. you usually pass that street at its lowest usage time, and ne

Some alternate interpretations of your experience: 1. It’s possible your sampling is biased. I.e. you usually pass that street at its lowest usage time, and never at its highest usage time. 2. It’s possible that road is a cycle infrastructure fragment. I.e. it’s great, but unconnected to the rest of the cycling network - so it’s not being used because only people who are going from one place on that strip to another place on that strip can make use of it. Once it’s joined up to the rest of the infrastructure it would start to get heavily used. As for Minneapolis’ climate - i’ve not been there so i can’t speak firsthand but I have lived and biked in Toronto and Montreal, which have roughly similar climates (very cold + very hot) and SO MANY CYCLISTS - so I think you might be wrong about that