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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (75 children)

I dare you to travel on your own bicycle in the depths of winter across the USA in the same timeframe as a car.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The reason you can't is much more about infrastructure than weather, especially within cities

Source: I live in Scandinavia and everyone bikes even when it's cold

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just out of curiosity, do you have snow tires for bikes or are the paths cleared well enough not to worry about it?

Where I live we often get mixes of sleet and ice along with the snow and since it is sporadic throughout winter we do a pretty mediocre job of funding the removal. If we didn't have so many wide roads it probably wouldn't take as much effort.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here not just bikes talks about winter cycling in Olou, Finland. The answer is yes, the city needs to manage the lanes during winter instead of letting it be acceptable to push snow in bike lanes or leave them uncleared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This was exactly what I was going to link.

Certainly in my city bike lanes and sidewalks are cleared and salted before main roads. Though we just had the warmest January on record so a lot less snow to think about 😬

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