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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Now it is a drop in the bucket, but with a good bike road (which is secure from cars and actually go somewhere, like workplaces, schools, groceries) people can finally take a bike or a scooter instead of their car.

    If you want personnal example, I go out and make grown up stuff everyday on my bike, like going to work, groceries and taking kids to the school, cause I know how to mix in traffic (and most of people in cars here are respectful).

    With a secured bike road my kids could go by themselves, and my wife could go by herself to groceries, now she is too afraid of cars, fortunately city is spending millions to build that so in few years it will be allright.

    And I see plenty of roads empty during the day which is used only twice a day during workdays by a couple of resident (if they work), and you still pay for it without thinking about it.






  • I got a bike for <10km flat trips (30 min).

    An ebike for longer (10-20km), or hilly, or carrying stuffs trips, or very hot days.

    A trailer for groceries.

    And I don’t like to exercise! But I clearly saw an improvement on my physical and mental health.

    My wife as her car for longer trips or when we have to move all family.

    Thing is we have a fairly good bike infrastructure (bike lanes everywhere and some bike roads), but not good enough for kids or people who are afraid to share road with cars.

    We need more bike-friendly roads (low speed on separated lanes), and make people conscious that car is not mandatory most of time.