Sarah
@mommypedals.bsky.social
#Cargobike riding, mom of 4, living in the #carcentric suburbs of Edmonton using #activetransportation and #publictransit while avoiding being hit by drivers. Even in winter.
Also a lawyer, but don't hold that against me.
Also a lawyer, but don't hold that against me.
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Sarah
@mommypedals.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Are you curious about #wintercycling?
I spent 30+ years hating winter & shuffling from my house to my car to my work/school. 7 years ago I discovered #winterbiking and winter is now my fav season.
If you want tips & tricks to get started, keep reading & if you are experienced, add yours
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I spent 30+ years hating winter & shuffling from my house to my car to my work/school. 7 years ago I discovered #winterbiking and winter is now my fav season.
If you want tips & tricks to get started, keep reading & if you are experienced, add yours
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Meanwhile...
"The North American e-bike market was valued at USD 3.12 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach over USD 10 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 12%."
"The North American e-bike market was valued at USD 3.12 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach over USD 10 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 12%."
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Meanwhile...
"The North American e-bike market was valued at USD 3.12 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach over USD 10 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 12%."
"The North American e-bike market was valued at USD 3.12 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach over USD 10 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 12%."
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Feedback for the 76 avenue renewal is now open!
The survey takes about 10-15 minutes. #YEGbike
engaged.edmonton.ca/76avenue?utm...
The survey takes about 10-15 minutes. #YEGbike
engaged.edmonton.ca/76avenue?utm...
76 Avenue Renewal
We invite you to learn more about 76 Avenue Renewal and provide your feedback on the options, benefits and tradeoffs of designs for the neighbourhood.
engaged.edmonton.ca
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Feedback for the 76 avenue renewal is now open!
The survey takes about 10-15 minutes. #YEGbike
engaged.edmonton.ca/76avenue?utm...
The survey takes about 10-15 minutes. #YEGbike
engaged.edmonton.ca/76avenue?utm...
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This week at #YEGcc @apaquette.bsky.social made a motion for admin to come up with plan to initiate a city-wide traffic safety team.
This is currently UNFUNDED, and will be up for review in the fall 2025 supplemental budget adjustment.
Email your councilors to make this a reality. #YEGbike
This is currently UNFUNDED, and will be up for review in the fall 2025 supplemental budget adjustment.
Email your councilors to make this a reality. #YEGbike
November 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This week at #YEGcc @apaquette.bsky.social made a motion for admin to come up with plan to initiate a city-wide traffic safety team.
This is currently UNFUNDED, and will be up for review in the fall 2025 supplemental budget adjustment.
Email your councilors to make this a reality. #YEGbike
This is currently UNFUNDED, and will be up for review in the fall 2025 supplemental budget adjustment.
Email your councilors to make this a reality. #YEGbike
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⭐️ Important engagement opportunity!
#yegbike #yegwalk #yeg
Find our more here: www.edmonton.ca/transportati...
#yegbike #yegwalk #yeg
Find our more here: www.edmonton.ca/transportati...
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
⭐️ Important engagement opportunity!
#yegbike #yegwalk #yeg
Find our more here: www.edmonton.ca/transportati...
#yegbike #yegwalk #yeg
Find our more here: www.edmonton.ca/transportati...
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There are a lot of things in need of feedback here! Please take the time to fill out the survey.
A few things you may consider adding:
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A few things you may consider adding:
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⭐️ Important engagement opportunity!
#yegbike #yegwalk #yeg
Find our more here: www.edmonton.ca/transportati...
#yegbike #yegwalk #yeg
Find our more here: www.edmonton.ca/transportati...
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There are a lot of things in need of feedback here! Please take the time to fill out the survey.
A few things you may consider adding:
🧵
A few things you may consider adding:
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Reposted by Sarah
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I wonder how accurate this is.
If Edmonton average driving time is 20min per 10km, that's only 30km/h.
I average about 21km/h on my bike.
And my average speed by bike doesn't change based on rush hour traffic.
Why are people driving again?
#yegbike
If Edmonton average driving time is 20min per 10km, that's only 30km/h.
I average about 21km/h on my bike.
And my average speed by bike doesn't change based on rush hour traffic.
Why are people driving again?
#yegbike
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I wonder how accurate this is.
If Edmonton average driving time is 20min per 10km, that's only 30km/h.
I average about 21km/h on my bike.
And my average speed by bike doesn't change based on rush hour traffic.
Why are people driving again?
#yegbike
If Edmonton average driving time is 20min per 10km, that's only 30km/h.
I average about 21km/h on my bike.
And my average speed by bike doesn't change based on rush hour traffic.
Why are people driving again?
#yegbike
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This hits hard.
I too experienced an "event" many years ago which turned out to be, what my doctor described as a mini heart attack, due to undiagnosed super high blood pressure enlarging part of my heart. Scary is an understatement.
1/ www.bikeradar.com/advice/healt...
I too experienced an "event" many years ago which turned out to be, what my doctor described as a mini heart attack, due to undiagnosed super high blood pressure enlarging part of my heart. Scary is an understatement.
1/ www.bikeradar.com/advice/healt...
Heart problems can strike any cyclist – here's how to navigate an alarming diagnosis | BikeRadar
Nick Christian examines the mental scars of riding with a worrying heart condition
www.bikeradar.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This hits hard.
I too experienced an "event" many years ago which turned out to be, what my doctor described as a mini heart attack, due to undiagnosed super high blood pressure enlarging part of my heart. Scary is an understatement.
1/ www.bikeradar.com/advice/healt...
I too experienced an "event" many years ago which turned out to be, what my doctor described as a mini heart attack, due to undiagnosed super high blood pressure enlarging part of my heart. Scary is an understatement.
1/ www.bikeradar.com/advice/healt...
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Almost got hit twice today by cars right on red-ing without looking for pedestrians. Different intersections but both time the light had just gone green for me and they were racing to beat the oncoming traffic. Any Australian who thinks we should have the equivalent hates pedestrians
November 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Almost got hit twice today by cars right on red-ing without looking for pedestrians. Different intersections but both time the light had just gone green for me and they were racing to beat the oncoming traffic. Any Australian who thinks we should have the equivalent hates pedestrians
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In Edmonton too, city council candidates who opposed or down-played city-wide bike infrastructure, were not-elected - except one. We're inviting #KarenPrincipe (she, who invited the Prov Minister of Transportation to interfere in Municipal jurisdiction) to join us on a bike ride. #yegbike
Say goodbye to city councillor Mary Deros, perhaps Montreal's most fervent bike-lane hater.
She hated then so much!
She lost the recent election, asked for a recount, and lost by more! Let's all hope that's the last we ever hear or see from her.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
She hated then so much!
She lost the recent election, asked for a recount, and lost by more! Let's all hope that's the last we ever hear or see from her.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Recount confirms longtime councillor Mary Deros's loss in Montreal's Park Ex | CBC News
Elvira Carhuallanqui’s victory unseats Mary Deros, who was first elected in 1998 with Pierre Bourque’s Vision Montréal and went on to win six more terms under various banners, including Ensemble Montr...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In Edmonton too, city council candidates who opposed or down-played city-wide bike infrastructure, were not-elected - except one. We're inviting #KarenPrincipe (she, who invited the Prov Minister of Transportation to interfere in Municipal jurisdiction) to join us on a bike ride. #yegbike
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SAVE THE DATE: Sunday, Nov 23! Last #kidicalmass YYC Ride of 2025! After this month's ride, we will be taking a break until the spring! Join us for one last (weather-dependent) hurrah! #yycbike
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
SAVE THE DATE: Sunday, Nov 23! Last #kidicalmass YYC Ride of 2025! After this month's ride, we will be taking a break until the spring! Join us for one last (weather-dependent) hurrah! #yycbike
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Car dependency is a hell of a drug.
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Car dependency is a hell of a drug.
This is a fantastic thread about what #wintercycling is and isn't.
It's not extreme, but it does add challenges that don't exist in other seasons.
I love the point that snow is different from rain because rain disappears, and snow/ice can remain a problem for weeks or months if not addressed.
It's not extreme, but it does add challenges that don't exist in other seasons.
I love the point that snow is different from rain because rain disappears, and snow/ice can remain a problem for weeks or months if not addressed.
I dislike the framing of winter as an “excuse”, as if you can wish it away.
I see it as an additional *challenge* that is *surmountable*.
Winter cities need to (1) design bike infrastructure for snow, (2) care about plowing, and (3) learn how to do a good job of plowing/maintaining the bike lanes.
I see it as an additional *challenge* that is *surmountable*.
Winter cities need to (1) design bike infrastructure for snow, (2) care about plowing, and (3) learn how to do a good job of plowing/maintaining the bike lanes.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is a fantastic thread about what #wintercycling is and isn't.
It's not extreme, but it does add challenges that don't exist in other seasons.
I love the point that snow is different from rain because rain disappears, and snow/ice can remain a problem for weeks or months if not addressed.
It's not extreme, but it does add challenges that don't exist in other seasons.
I love the point that snow is different from rain because rain disappears, and snow/ice can remain a problem for weeks or months if not addressed.
Another reason to be glad to live in a winter city. Can't imagine these will work in #yeg.
I'm happy to share bike lanes with scooters, one wheels, wheelchairs, strollers etc.
Little delivery robots??? Hard pass.
I'm happy to share bike lanes with scooters, one wheels, wheelchairs, strollers etc.
Little delivery robots??? Hard pass.
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes.
momentummag.com/doordash-pla...
momentummag.com/doordash-pla...
DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag
DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.
momentummag.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Another reason to be glad to live in a winter city. Can't imagine these will work in #yeg.
I'm happy to share bike lanes with scooters, one wheels, wheelchairs, strollers etc.
Little delivery robots??? Hard pass.
I'm happy to share bike lanes with scooters, one wheels, wheelchairs, strollers etc.
Little delivery robots??? Hard pass.
Another reason Bunch is the best bike company I've ever dealt with. Honestly, the best company I've ever dealt with.
Attention, bike thieves: We verify ownership before selling replacement chargers or keys. And our team gets wayyyyy too excited about playing Bunch Fam Detective Squad when you give us the opportunity. #bunchfam #cargobike #warning
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Another reason Bunch is the best bike company I've ever dealt with. Honestly, the best company I've ever dealt with.
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“Unlike the car, the e-cargo bike afforded a unique sensitivity to the natural world and local environment [that] enabled parents to train their children in local geography and responsible mobility.”
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RW2MT...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RW2MT...
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“Unlike the car, the e-cargo bike afforded a unique sensitivity to the natural world and local environment [that] enabled parents to train their children in local geography and responsible mobility.”
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RW2MT...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RW2MT...
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First snow ride of the season
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
First snow ride of the season
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
First snow ride of the season
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
Snow in my lashes. Ice in my brows.
Nothing makes me feel more alive…except my ride home tonight without studs.
#yegbike #wintercycling
#bill6 #abpoli
Can someone explain why the Minister would need access to personal information about students?
As a parent- I'm not ok with that. This also seems to violate POPA (which the government just passed and made effective June 11)
docs.assembly.ab.ca/LADDAR_files...
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Can someone explain why the Minister would need access to personal information about students?
As a parent- I'm not ok with that. This also seems to violate POPA (which the government just passed and made effective June 11)
docs.assembly.ab.ca/LADDAR_files...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
#bill6 #abpoli
Can someone explain why the Minister would need access to personal information about students?
As a parent- I'm not ok with that. This also seems to violate POPA (which the government just passed and made effective June 11)
docs.assembly.ab.ca/LADDAR_files...
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Can someone explain why the Minister would need access to personal information about students?
As a parent- I'm not ok with that. This also seems to violate POPA (which the government just passed and made effective June 11)
docs.assembly.ab.ca/LADDAR_files...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
When you promise the park after errands, but Sir Squawk falls asleep on the way to the park...
My dilemma - wake him up & he's cranky, or he skips the park & is cranky.
No win scenario 😂
#yegbike #parenting
My dilemma - wake him up & he's cranky, or he skips the park & is cranky.
No win scenario 😂
#yegbike #parenting
November 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
When you promise the park after errands, but Sir Squawk falls asleep on the way to the park...
My dilemma - wake him up & he's cranky, or he skips the park & is cranky.
No win scenario 😂
#yegbike #parenting
My dilemma - wake him up & he's cranky, or he skips the park & is cranky.
No win scenario 😂
#yegbike #parenting
Chances of the general strike happening on Nov 5?
a poster that says remember remember the 5th of november on it
Alt: a gif that says remember remember the 5th of november on it with a pixelated cartoon drawing of guy Fawkes and torches
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Chances of the general strike happening on Nov 5?
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#ableg #abpolitcs #yeg #abteachers
Bill 2 includes use of the notwithstanding clause... I think My Lethbridge Now posted an embargoed piece too early and pulled it down.
Link was: share.google/13tZdomWgGWj...
Bill 2 includes use of the notwithstanding clause... I think My Lethbridge Now posted an embargoed piece too early and pulled it down.
Link was: share.google/13tZdomWgGWj...
October 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
#ableg #abpolitcs #yeg #abteachers
Bill 2 includes use of the notwithstanding clause... I think My Lethbridge Now posted an embargoed piece too early and pulled it down.
Link was: share.google/13tZdomWgGWj...
Bill 2 includes use of the notwithstanding clause... I think My Lethbridge Now posted an embargoed piece too early and pulled it down.
Link was: share.google/13tZdomWgGWj...