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Tiny Beaches
@tinybeaches.bsky.social
Husband, father, rider of bikes 🚲, skier of skis ⛷️ and spender of time outside… hockey 🏒 too! 🇨🇦
#YouthEnRoute #Fietser #yycbike
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You can bike to school year round in Calgary!
#yycbike #biketoschool #bicycle #bicycling
That may help explain these spring like bike count numbers… 🤔
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By 4:30 PM on Jan 12, 2026, over 700 people rode past this daily counter on the 5 St SW cycle track in Calgary.
#Calgary #yycBike
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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2026 is going to be awesome for @youthenroute.bsky.social #yycbike
We're super excited to give you a hint of what we've got planned for #2026. It's going to be HUGE for the #yycbike Community. And the best part? We're working with our good friends @bathtubbikes.bsky.social Get on our newsletter list to get all the updates.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Ahhh, the sandwich board! Is there anything it can’t [attempt to] solve! 😂
January 13, 2026 at 3:37 AM
These are spring like counts and it’s the middle of January!

Is Calgary truly a year round bicycling City? 🤔
#Calgary
By 4:30 PM on Jan 12, 2026, over 700 people rode past this daily counter on the 5 St SW cycle track in Calgary.
#Calgary #yycBike
January 13, 2026 at 3:28 AM
By 4:30 PM on Jan 12, 2026, over 700 people rode past this daily counter on the 5 St SW cycle track in Calgary.
#Calgary #yycBike
January 13, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I agree, but my guess is there's a preference to keep them high so not to receive graffiti or stickers. Unfortunately it means kids biking to the elementary school one block away will have to look way up to notice them.
January 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM
These wheeling lanes are brand new as of Nov and haven't been "opened" yet because the signage hadn't been installed yet. They also haven't been plowed yet. I have witnessed people walk in them, before it snowed, but generally people stay on the raised sidewalk beside the wheeling lanes.
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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We're super excited to give you a hint of what we've got planned for #2026. It's going to be HUGE for the #yycbike Community. And the best part? We're working with our good friends @bathtubbikes.bsky.social Get on our newsletter list to get all the updates.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Looks like you have a case of hypofenderism of the front wheel. You need to transplant a bigger fender to get the splash down and save yourself from winter grime on the drive train! 😂
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
My thought is they’ve placed these mini stop signs so high that many/most riders may not even notice them. They will however see the large sign… so the what’s the point of bothering with the small sign? 🤷‍♂️
January 12, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Thoughts on these mini stop signs for the separated wheeling lanes?
I think they’re kind of weird.
#yycBike #Calgary
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
No that’s not it. 🤷‍♂️
January 12, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Here’s a photo from 3 years ago. This seemed fine. 🤷‍♂️
January 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
I suggested a basic reasonable amount of water billed at normal rates. That gives equality to all.

Escalating rates above that is effectively the automation of fines for over consumption. 👍
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Car wash businesses in Calgary protect the environment by having people clean their cars in a location where the water is not only reused but more importantly doesn’t go down the storm drain and directly into the river which is what would happen without them as people would wash at home. 🤷‍♂️
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Ride through East Village on the weekend and noticed the planters have moved to separate the wheeling from the walking. Previously it separated cars from bicycles.

Anyone know why the change?
#yycBike #Calgary
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
If Alberta wants to help lower the cost of building multi family homes, it could adopt the elevator standard used by the rest of the world…
A video by @uytaelee.bsky.social explains 👇
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North America's Elevator Problem
YouTube video by About Here
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January 12, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Hmmmm. 🤨
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I don’t know when Google Maps is updated. You reminded me to submit a suggested revision. Let’s see when it shows up. 🤷‍♂️
January 12, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Makes sense… so many photos and videos online the last few days of the Dutch bicycling in the snow… ❄️ 🚲
January 11, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Does Calgary have more people bicycling in the winter than Edmonton? Or does Calgary just have more Strava users?

On the left is the Strava heat map for the past week in Edmonton vs. the same for Calgary on the right.
#Calgary #Edmonton #yycBike #yegBike
January 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
There will be water restrictions off and on for the next 2 years until the redundant pipe is built. Banning car washes at L4 could very well result in car wash businesses closing. Not a good thing.

A better approach would be to work with car washes to get them off potable water.
January 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Yet somehow when a price per litre was placed on water, Calgarians responded with lower usage. 👇

BTW Car washes do eventually get banned, just not at Level 4 that we are at currently.

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All Calgarians know how to reduce their water usage. Every single one of them.

You just have to give them a financial incentive. Exhibit 11👇
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM