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   Pekka Tahkola (pekkatahkola@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 02:41:37 JST Pekka Tahkola

   This is Metsokangas elementary school in the far suburbs of Oulu 🇫🇮. It was -31°C in the morning (-40° windchill). What you see here is just 1 of the 4 parking lots for students. It's not about the cold, it's the safe infrastructure & excellent maintenance. No rocket science.
   #MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu #BikeTooter
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     Pekka Tahkola (pekkatahkola@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 02:42:22 JST Pekka Tahkola

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     Safe infrastructure means you can safely approach a school from all possible directions. On dedicated, segregated paths and you almost never need to cross a street. Thus, we obviously need bike parking in every direction, around the school at separate entrances.
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     Pekka Tahkola (pekkatahkola@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 02:43:27 JST Pekka Tahkola

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     This school has been so immensely popular that they've had to expand it many times. Naturally with bike parking. A lot of it. Winter and weather are not the issues. Kids will cycle and walk when you give them safe opportunity to do so.
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     Pekka Tahkola (pekkatahkola@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:10:21 JST Pekka Tahkola

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     You'll see all possible types of bikes. Regular upright single speeds, granny bikes, mountain bikes, even an occasional fatbike and an e-bike. Anything that moves, works. There's absolutely no need for any special gear. It's quite rare to even see any studded tires. That's because snow inherently isn't really that slippery (ice is) and the maintenance here works really well.
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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:10:44 JST Ned Yeung

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     @pekkatahkola The elementary school where my daughters go to Grade 1, does not even have a SIDEWALK along the side of the school where the FRONT DOOR is located!

     When we were riding our push scooters around the neighborhood, they wanted to turn down the street where their school was. They asked, "Why not? Our school is right there, it's safe." and I had to explain to them that there is no sidewalk in front of their school and there is only a road for cars to drive down (they use the side door).

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     National Meme Board of Alberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ (nmba@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:11:19 JST National Meme Board of Alberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @ned @pekkatahkola
     I especially like the local soccer mom and her Expedition that parks in the crosswalk so the kids that actually walk to school have to wait for her royal offspring to disembark first. Almost a daily occurrence…

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     Pekka Tahkola (pekkatahkola@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:11:21 JST Pekka Tahkola

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     @ned 🤯 🤯 🤦

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:11:21 JST Ned Yeung

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     @pekkatahkola What kind of dystopian nightmare is this where a grade-school child needs a car or truck to safely access the main entrance of their school? #yeg #yegbike

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     Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:11:31 JST Ned Yeung

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     @NMBA @pekkatahkola Yup, or right against the crosswalk in the no-parking spot, so that the big line of kids squeezing through the tiny gap between SUVs to cross at the crosswalk can't see traffic, or vice versa.