If you love cycling, then you would love this post.
As we have heard that cycling is not a good option in winter months, rain, snow, and ice. People find these months just unsuitable for biking. Well, this Finnish town is proving it wrong and telling us that cycling is perfectly possible in these months too. You just need the right planning and infrastructure.
Pekka Tahkola is an urban well-being engineer for Navico Ltd. and a cycling coordinator for the City of Oulu. He took a photo of the local school’s bicycle parking lot, to prove that nothing is keeping these kids off their bikes.
It can be weird for some people how some parents allow their kids to go on two wheels.point 179 | “We organized a study tour for participants from southern Finland for them to see how cycling to school is taken care of in our city,” Pekka told the informative environmental website MNN.point 340 |
“We visited a couple of schools and also spoke a lot with local teachers and principals.point 75 | I’m pretty sure this school is among the best ones.point 119 | It is not the only one, and there are numerous schools in Oulu where the majority of kids cycle and walk to school.point 212 |
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“It’s normal; always been like that. I cycled and kicksledded to school when I was a kid, too,” he says. “And it’s the same thing even in minus 30 C.”
He wrote on his twitter handle: 1000 out of 1200 kids in this school in #Oulu, #Finland, arrive by #bicycle, even in winter. 100-150 walk, rest by ski, kicked and car. This day it was -17°C.@WCCCalgary2019 #WCC2019 #wintercycling
There are two more bike parks like this at this school. And I have to say that the racks should be a lot better :)
He tweeted: What a freshly plowed #bikepath in #Oulu looks like. The perfect surface to cycle on.@WCCCalgary2019 #WCC2019 #wintercycling
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