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Out of Towner said:
Well there you go. That's not the kids in the NE on WalMart bicycles and it's not the guy cycling to Tim Horton's to save money. No. Not at all. What you have there is the high minded and morally superior Rachel Notley constituency that wants everybody else to pay for their leisure and recreational actively.
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I can’t tell if you’re serious. I’ve already told you how many children use the paths to go to school. Did you see a picture of adults riding bicycles and conclude that children don’t use bike paths? Do I have to post a picture of the kids riding bikes to school each time someone comments?
 
It was mostly a group of parents who have kids who are too young to go school on their own still, who have either opted to ditch their expensive second or even primary vehicles for a bicycle that's a fraction of the cost so they can carry their kids and groceries. The Urban Arrows visually dominate the photo but there were also other motorized and non-motorized bakfiets including an impressive homemade one that made me wish I knew how to weld, long tails, Aliexpress bikes. My teenagers have been riding around on their own since they were old enough, but they mostly prefer MTBing now and using LRT to get there.

By the way, the ignore function works great here. Most other forums will continue to display ignored users posts in line in the thread but the only time I see that a certain someone has posted anything here is when they're quoted:
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Not saying anyone here has to resort to this, but my energy is not worth the very small percentage of people I can't have meaningful conversations with. I'm also not going to be someone else's cup of tea either and that's ok.
 

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I can’t tell if you’re serious. I’ve already told you how many children use the paths to go to school. Did you see a picture of adults riding bicycles and conclude that children don’t use bike paths? Do I have to post a picture of the kids riding bikes to school each time someone comments?
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Kids can be exempted from paying a bike path user fee that's been publicly funded imo but there's no reason why an affluent demographic shouldn't pay a user fee. The fact that cyclists pay property taxes is not a valid reason why they shouldn't pay a fee because paying property tax doesn't make them unique in any way. Everybody pays property taxes either directly to the city or through a landlord and if non cyclists began using the reasoning used by cyclists, then non cyclists should be entitled to free transportation too.
 
dkazzed said:
I'm trying to understand what your neat animated profile photo means.
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Thanks for asking my friend! It actually shows the expansion of the shared-use path network and district bike routes between 2024-26 utilizing the $100 million dollar municipal investment. Pretty cool, huh? 😍
 
Good to see the biking numbers trending well so far this spring. I wonder if we're close to the HLB starting to hit 2000/day occasionally. A handful of routes are consistently doing 1000+ which is great to see. Now we just need more missing links filled in and feeder routes onto the main ones built out. 107ave and 95ave on the west end will both be critical additions to the network connecting the west end to 102ave into DT.

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