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nicehill on March 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cyclists now outnumber motorists in City of London

Maybe hard packed snow is a strategy for only flat cities

Seattle infamously tried the hard packed snow strategy about a decade ago, and it turned it into a dangerous (hilly) ice rink

avianlyric on March 20, 2023 [–]

There's a difference between riding on hard pack with a bike, and driving a car over it. I have no idea why you think an experiment with hard-pack snow on automotive roads is in anyway indicative of what works on cycle lanes.

nicehill on March 21, 2023 | [–]

Hard pack on a hill doesn't seem to make sense for bicycles either

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