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Great lets pick Canada in January. Bring a shovel.
by ipaddr 11mo ago
Great lets pick Canada in January. Bring a shovel.
- nickserv 11mo agoThey don't clear snow from cycle paths in Canada? If not then it's an infrastructure problem, not a weather problem.
- aziaziazi 11mo agoSound like a German saying : > there’s no weather problems, there’s clothing problems
- refactor_master 11mo agoJust to add a less opinionated take: https://www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/why-winter-is-a-poor-argument-against-bike-lanes/ https://www.citymonitor.ai/analysis/why-winter-is-a-poor-arg... Personally I've also biked to work (and everywhere, really) in sub-zero degrees many times, because the bicycle lanes are cleared and salted. It's really not too bad. It actually gets a bit too hot even, because you start out by wearing so much.
- halostatue 11mo agoIn cold weather, one should always dress for 5℃ warmer than the temperature outside when you have a bike longer than 5 km. Runners pretty much have to do the same. Your body heat and good layering will take care of everything else.
- thaumasiotes 11mo agoPersonally I've also biked to work (and everywhere, really) in sub-zero degrees many times, because the bicycle lanes are cleared and salted. I used to bike to work in just-above-freezing temperatures. That wasn't so bad. The one time it started to rain mid-journey, that was bad.
- halostatue 11mo agoDon't need one in Toronto within a ½ day or so of the snow stopping for the major bicycle routes (including the MGT). Calgary apparently also does a good job of clearing its bike lanes. And I do my Costco shopping by bike year-round. I think I've used the car for large purchases at Costco twice in the last year. I _rarely_ drive my car anywhere in Toronto, and find the streets on bike safer than most of the sidewalks in January -- they get plowed sooner than most homeowners and businesses clear the ice from their sidewalks. And in Toronto we're rank amateurs at winter biking. Look at Montreal, Oslo, or Helsinki for even better examples. Too bad we've got a addle-brained carhead who doesn't understand public safety or doing his own provincial as our premier.