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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Dutch system is great. If it's green you can go and very rarely do you have conflict with another road user. You can assume it's safe. A lot you can do when proper road taxes and gas taxes are paid.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I had weird power problems last week in my building.. it was affecting every tenant. Germain St downtown in SJ. Finally SJ Energy came in and opened the manhole cover. Found a strange ladder in there. Someone opened the manhole cover and tried cutting out my neutral. Novel way to mine copper.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me: "gas prices? buy a smaller car" Them: "Burn him!"

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rapid bus transit is awesome.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

How cool to pass by old museum trams on the way to the shopping mall. Less exciting was building my own propane hose for my new bbq.. serious what's up with that?

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

awesome camera. I had some jackass do this to me one day, some old guy rolled down his window as he was driving to make sure he could call me an idiot while I was biking home.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

15 GW of solar energy today in the Netherlands on a nice sunny day. I was wondering why I was seeing idle windmills.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh I have to try that irish poutine next time I'm in town.. mmmmm

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There's a frozen pizza brand in the Netherlands we're hooked on that has sourdough crust.. it's so good.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I rented a car that used the same slider for volume and for the fan speed. It was awful

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I always wondered why such a small province has municipal control over fire and police instead of these being controlled at a municipal level given all of the overhead to run these organizations. Those are pretty big ticket items per municipality.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today I tried crossing Rothesay avenue at 9am to catch the bus. Closest crosswalk adds over half a kilometer.. sheeesh

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Amsterdam.. we have a house just outside the city. I'm back touching up the house and packing boxes.. almost done.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

House going on the market maybe next week.. this is getting real!

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Chess Piece closed? what happened? Do they still run the ice cream shop?

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

YHZ and YQM are really close to the main CN line, would be great to fly to halifax and take the train the rest of the way to saint john.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We tried to buy a small Toyota Yaris 10 or so years ago and they were very difficult to find. But bigger cars were sitting ready in the lot. I wonder how many people end up buying larger cars just because smaller options are not easy to find.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

What I like is that even in Amsterdam's car infested cesspools (and there are a lot of them) you'll still get protected mobility lanes, BRT, tram lines. When the roads are packed the big double-length bus is still able to cut around all the traffic maps.app.goo.gl/tL5g9r3EZTTd...

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

omg this! oh plus thinking we were going to get nuked.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

2.50 euros/litre last weekend for gas when I rented a car 😱

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Bus priority areas are awesome! We've got a lot of areas here in Amsterdam and the 15 cars (each with one person in them) don't hold up traffic for the 40 of us in the bus. Far more efficient use of the roads.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

DTI pulled the same nonsense in Saint John too - closing off a key active transportation route for folks in the north end to get uptown (a lot of folks use it, it's healthy and a nice walk and it lets us leave the car at home).

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I missed my stop on the tram this morning (was practicing my Dutch) and went an extra stop.. discovered a beautiful pedestrian area in De Pijp (Eerste van der Helststraat) So lively! Parking sucked though, surprised anyone was there.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

ugh again? Oh wait, I live in Amsterdam now haha

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Or this one by my tram stop. Well lit, covered and useful!

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

First day of first-fake-spring ?

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Mum: How's life in Europe Me:

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I like how these Dutch ones have raised metal poles making it easy to chain your bike to them. These are everywhere (and covered at my tram stop. That’s nice. When it’s raining my bike is dry)

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

BRT 🏎️🏎️🚍. 50+ of us on the bus.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Any idea what the source of this was? effluent from a factory?

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nothing slows down a driver more than them hitting a speed bump at full speed. The Saint John installed "speed cushions" on a shortcut road connecting North and West. People either slow down themselves or get forced to slow down because of the person in front of them. I'm a big fan.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Feels like big highways, free bridges, lots of parking and a disregard for BRT and bike lanes would be the priorities that come about with that makeup.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Maybe a floating dock? (.5 MWh & 800l of water to generate my dumb joke)

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Wow that's a lot of residential units in that area that can get compltely cut off by a train. I wonder what the solution will be.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Isn't that funny how we can still hear that phone number being sung in our head. I called it a couple months ago wondering if it was still being used. I remember a less-effective one I believe for the ferry to Digby.. 565-74 something something maybe?

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This is such a great path. It would be nice to see a lane cut between the bridge and harbour passage to make this part of the trip better. The walk/bike by stresscon is still awful. There's only a single lane crossing the bridge so it's not like we lose anything except people going 70 on Chesley

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I see it's -10/-18 back in Saint John.. I can handle Amsterdam's 6' thank you very much. 🌦️

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Salty's wow.. I remember going there in the early 2000s.

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

City hall appointment in Amstelveen. No busses. Plowed bike lanes - it was awesome!

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

City hall meeting tomorrow at 9am, no busses running and code orange with snow and slippery bike path. Definitely a "don't forget you signed up for this" moment. #codeoranje

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

All trains cancelled this morning around Amsterdam Centraal.. chaos!

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Derek @saintjohnderek.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A couple of big missing use cases: kids biking to school & after school events, quick grocery store trips and parents taking their kids to daycare/school. That seems to be the bulk of what I'm seeing here on the big bike lanes in amstelveen.

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