TEASER: Winnipeg Bike Mayor Patty Wiens

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Patty Wiens is the Bike Mayor of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. We met Patty on our trip to Edmonton for the Winter Cycling Congress back in February and were really struck with her energy and drive as an advocate for people who ride bikes in her city.

We talked with Patty about how she became a Bike Mayor and how people in Winnipeg are organizing to create better streets for people in a very car-centric place. She also told us about how the community has been protesting against recent traffic violence in the city, including one case in which an Indigenous woman named Tammy Bateman was struck and killed by police driving through a city park.

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0:43.0	So Winnipeg, we are a city of 850,000 and we're in the middle of nowhere. Our closest large city is about 450 miles away and that's Minneapolis,
0:49.0	so that's a different country, right?
0:52.0	So, you know, we are... it's a different country, right?
0:53.0	So, you know, we are, we're known for saying
0:57.3	that would never work here.
0:59.2	We love saying things like that.
1:00.8	And I know there's a lot of cities who feel that way. But we have very
1:04.3	extreme temperatures here. We have plus 30 Celsius. I'm not sure what that is in
1:11.5	Fahrenheit but I'm thinking in the 90s right at 30 35 yeah 90s yeah for sure and we also have minus 30 right so we have these extreme temperatures, so people who ride bikes in winter are quite radicalized.
1:30.0	And it is kind of what happened to me, right? I wrote my bike in winter one day and poof, here we are. I'm a big bike advocate now.
1:37.0	And it seems to happen to a lot of people.
1:40.0	We are also a city who is sort of a target of a lot of the jokes in Canada.
1:48.0	Oh, Winter Peg, you know, there's nothing to do there.
1:52.0	It's flat. It is a prairie city. So it is flat. We get a lot of snow in winter
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