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   Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 12:27:00 JST Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

   Google Photos just popped up with a "memories" album it auto-created with photos from 2016.

   Almost all of the photos are from my bicycle commute to work, and it unintentionally showed just how ridiculous the whole "nobody cycles in the winter" excuse really is.

   Most of the photos were bicycle lanes completely covered in snow, and mostly turned to hardened ice in the form of tire-treads, due to cars driving over them.

   GEE, I WONDER WHY NOBODY IS CYCLING HERE?

   #vikingbiking #biketo #bikewinter

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     Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 12:27:46 JST Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

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     And la pièce de résistance, at the end of the photo album, was this photo of the bike rack at my work.

     After braving the snow-covered car-infested streets of Toronto, I get to work and the snow plow has put all of the snow from the car parking right into the bike rack. 🤦

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     Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 12:27:47 JST Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

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     But another photo shows the extremely dangerous situation of a semi truck in gridlocked traffic, in the dark winter rush-hour, blocking one of the very very few bicycle lanes that were actually plowed. 😩

     I can't believe I ever cycled on these dangerous streets and in the dark! I don't think I would do that today. 😱

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     Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 (notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 12:27:49 JST Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱

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     A couple of the photos showed the (very, very few) bicycle lanes that were actually plowed in Toronto, which was great, but it was really treacherous to even GET to these places in the first place.

     There were a few other people cycling with me who were either very brave or, more likely, lucky enough to live and work along part of the minuscule "winter bike lane" network that were plowed.

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     liansirenia@kitsunes.club's status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 12:28:15 JST LianSirenia

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     @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com nobody would drive in winter if they didn't bother to clear the car lanes either :strawb_derp:

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     ReindeR Rustema (rrustema020@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 12:29:25 JST ReindeR Rustema

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     @notjustbikes In Amsterdam I would feel entitled to just take over the road and bike in the middle of it. Don't expect much anger from the motorists because they can see there is no alternative. Would not be fined I am sure, for the same reason. Luckily the bike lanes are cleaned and I never felt the need for such a stunt. Probably the city understands what a mess it would be if bicyclists are all deprived of their bike lane and start using the main road.

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