Metsokangas elementary school in the far suburbs of Oulu 🇫🇮. It was -31°C in the morning (-40° windchill). This is just 1 of the 4 parking lots for students. It's not about the cold,it's the safe infrastructure & excellent maintenance. No rocket science.
#MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu
1/ Safe infrastructure means you can safely approach a school from all possible directions. On dedicated, segregated paths and you almost never need to cross a street. Thus, we obviously need bike parking in every direction, around the school at separate entrances.
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🧵The father of #MeanwhileInOulu, Mauri Myllylä, 87. The first traffic engineer in Oulu. There's just so much we all owe to him especially regarding cycling. Talked with him last week over dinner about some of the historical important planning decisions they made back in 60's 1/ City of Oulu started growing rapidly in the late 50's and 60's. We needed a traffic engineer. I'm so happy they chose Mauri, who understood the importance of #walking & #cycling even during our strongest era of automobilization. He faced a lot and I do mean A LOT of criticism 2/

🧵 Excited to share the news about this amazing new heavy duty E-Cargobike from #Oulu, #Finland. The #KiddieBus version can safely & comfortably take eight (8) kids. It can also carry up to 870 liters of cargo 💪 1/x
oucabikes.com #OucaBikes #CargoBike #Tavarapyörä We were invited for test ride with development version of bike with @Tinkerlmatz in late January in lovely -16°C weather, taking turns in the saddle & passenger department 🤗 2/x

Getting closer to reaching the first 2000+ 🚲 day of the year! 🥰
#MeanwhileInOulu #Oulu #Finland Mutta näissä laskureiden datassa on jotain pientä häikkää. Yleensä erot ovat aika pieniä, mutta tämän laskurin kohdalla jokin mättää. Saataisko me tämä nyt lopulta selville @harrivaarala?

A better thread of #wintermaintenance of #Oulu 🇫🇮 main #bicycle routes: General info, quality requirements, control & implementation. Oulu shows you can maintain your #cycling infra round the year even in extreme conditions. Where there’s will, there’s a bike path! 1/x It’s a bit unusual joint contract with two municipalities @oulunkaupunki & @KempeleenKunta and state road adminstration @POPELYkeskus. Due to joint contract, the area borders will show no quality variations or other visible deviations. #MeanwhileinOulu 2/x