YHZ and YQM are really close to the main CN line, would be great to fly to halifax and take the train the rest of the way to saint john.

We tried to buy a small Toyota Yaris 10 or so years ago and they were very difficult to find. But bigger cars were sitting ready in the lot. I wonder how many people end up buying larger cars just because smaller options are not easy to find.

What I like is that even in Amsterdam's car infested cesspools (and there are a lot of them) you'll still get protected mobility lanes, BRT, tram lines. When the roads are packed the big double-length bus is still able to cut around all the traffic maps.app.goo.gl/tL5g9r3EZTTd...

🤣😱😨😭

omg this! oh plus thinking we were going to get nuked.

2.50 euros/litre last weekend for gas when I rented a car 😱

Bus priority areas are awesome! We've got a lot of areas here in Amsterdam and the 15 cars (each with one person in them) don't hold up traffic for the 40 of us in the bus. Far more efficient use of the roads.

DTI pulled the same nonsense in Saint John too - closing off a key active transportation route for folks in the north end to get uptown (a lot of folks use it, it's healthy and a nice walk and it lets us leave the car at home).

I missed my stop on the tram this morning (was practicing my Dutch) and went an extra stop.. discovered a beautiful pedestrian area in De Pijp (Eerste van der Helststraat) So lively! Parking sucked though, surprised anyone was there.

ugh again? Oh wait, I live in Amsterdam now haha

Or this one by my tram stop. Well lit, covered and useful!

First day of first-fake-spring ?

Mum: How's life in Europe
Me:

I like how these Dutch ones have raised metal poles making it easy to chain your bike to them. These are everywhere (and covered at my tram stop. That’s nice. When it’s raining my bike is dry)

BRT 🏎️🏎️🚍. 50+ of us on the bus.

Any idea what the source of this was? effluent from a factory?

Nothing slows down a driver more than them hitting a speed bump at full speed. The Saint John installed "speed cushions" on a shortcut road connecting North and West. People either slow down themselves or get forced to slow down because of the person in front of them. I'm a big fan.

Feels like big highways, free bridges, lots of parking and a disregard for BRT and bike lanes would be the priorities that come about with that makeup.

Maybe a floating dock? (.5 MWh & 800l of water to generate my dumb joke)

Wow that's a lot of residential units in that area that can get compltely cut off by a train. I wonder what the solution will be.

Does that ever look fun!

Isn't that funny how we can still hear that phone number being sung in our head. I called it a couple months ago wondering if it was still being used.

I remember a less-effective one I believe for the ferry to Digby.. 565-74 something something maybe?

This is such a great path. It would be nice to see a lane cut between the bridge and harbour passage to make this part of the trip better. The walk/bike by stresscon is still awful. There's only a single lane crossing the bridge so it's not like we lose anything except people going 70 on Chesley

I see it's -10/-18 back in Saint John.. I can handle Amsterdam's 6' thank you very much. 🌦️

Nice!

Salty's wow.. I remember going there in the early 2000s.

City hall appointment in Amstelveen. No busses. Plowed bike lanes - it was awesome!

City hall meeting tomorrow at 9am, no busses running and code orange with snow and slippery bike path. Definitely a "don't forget you signed up for this" moment. #codeoranje

All trains cancelled this morning around Amsterdam Centraal.. chaos!

A couple of big missing use cases: kids biking to school & after school events, quick grocery store trips and parents taking their kids to daycare/school. That seems to be the bulk of what I'm seeing here on the big bike lanes in amstelveen.