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[stormdog]

We asked whether there is bike parking at the apartment buildings we're looking at renting in in Regina. "We don't typically put out bike racks," said the rep.

I've only lived in the Netherlands for a bit over a year, and I haven't even done much biking around, but I'm already so used to the bike culture here that that response feels really weird to me. Like, how could you *possibly* not provide bike parking? It makes no sense!

*sighs* Welcome back to North American urban planning... It actually makes me a little angry. It doesn't have to be like this.

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[cmcmck]

You've been living in a country that does it really well, which will have spoiled you for anywhere else! :o)

[stormdog]

It really, really has. I'm used to safe separation from motor vehicle traffic *everywhere*, bike racks everywhere I could want to go, and just the expectation that people will want to be able to use their bikes to do just about anything. Now I'll be back to where people who shop for groceries by bike in the winter are nuts...

[armiphlage]

Or even people who own bikes are viewed as nuts ...