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Fitting bike lanes onto narrow commercial main streets that have lots of competition for the space can be tricky … but downtown #Waterloo has done it pretty well.

#cycling #BikeTooter #urbanism

A busy urban street scene featuring cyclists on a bike lane running alongside the sidewalk.

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A streetscape featuring a busy sidewalk with parked cars, including a white Audi. A brick clock tower is visible in the background, alongside banners and street lamps. A bicycle lane marked on the pavement runs parallel to the sidewalk, under a partly cloudy sky

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A city street scene featuring a mix of parked and moving cars, with a bicycle lane marked in green. The background includes multi-story buildings, storefronts, and decorative lampposts. Flowering plants are visible in the foreground.

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The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

https://theconversation.com/walter-scott-war-journalism-from-the-waterloo-battlefield-43304

#Scottish #literature #Waterloo #SirWalterScott #19thcentury

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