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Montreal has website/app (infoneige.ca/index-en.php) that allows residents to monitor progress of snow removal ops in real time. The purpose is to warn residents to remove parked cars before the operation starts. It’s best to remove parked bikes as well so that don’t get dinged by the machines.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

After a record 74 cm snow dump, #wintercycling is on hold for a few days. Sidewalks, bike lanes, and local streets are buried in so much snow that plowing is ineffective or simply impossible. While snow removal operations progress slowly, we’ve been getting around on x-country skis instead.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Traffic signs in Quebec are only loosely based on the MUTCD. Pictograms are preferred over to text to allow speakers of any language to understand. On this windy Monday, a colleague reminded me of traffic sign D-61-1 "Squall", Quebec's finest! Oddly, I am reminded of a certain other blowhard...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

mainstream narrative.

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created...a triangle-framed bike can easily carry 10x its own weight—capacity no automobile, airplane or bridge can match.” —Bill Strickland.

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

A shared street is essentially a pedestrian street that cars are allowed to use. The street must be designed to make motorists feel like they are invading the pedestrian realm. Any visual distinction between roadway and sidewalk must be avoided. Video: de la Gauchetière Est in Montreal.

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Taking the whole lane ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ The textbook radical anti-car cyclists our culture despises

submitted 142 days ago • 15 comments

English version of the document here: designmontreal.com/s3fs-public/...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Montreal's summertime street pedestrianizations and other tactical street retrofits have been successful in part due to careful layout and design. The City's Design Bureau has drawn on these experiences to compile this great guide for temporary on-street spaces. designmontreal.com/s3fs-public/...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

This excellent @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video about Laval, Montreal’s neighbour to the north, shows how a car-oriented suburb can rapidly expand and improve cycling infrastructure to create a workable network. Laval might be a more salient example for many North American communities than Montreal.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Last winter, Montreal's BIXI #bikeshare system stayed open for the first time. Though only 1 in 8 stations remained open from mid-November to April, 93,000 people used the system to make about 1-million trips. 65% of them were #wintercycling for the first time. 81% said they'll do it again.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Good news. Because I have a picture of a street with no cars in it, we don’t need streets for cars. I know that because of all the helpful people who have told me over the years that because they have a picture of a bike-lane with no bikes in it, we don’t need bike-lanes. Sounds reasonable, right?

submitted 78 days ago • 47 comments

Yesterday I biked: - from home in Villeray to the office in Old Montreal (7.1 km) - from the office to a work party in the Olympic Park (8.6 km) - from the Olympic Park back home (8.1 km) 100% of my journey was on separated, winter-maintained infrastructure. We have come a long way, my friends.

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

🎯 www.revuegestion.ca/electrificat...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Build it and they will come. Plow it and they will come in the winter.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

First significant snowfall in Montreal. Maintenance operations on the cycling network completed overnight. Smooth sailing for people heading to work and school on their bikes this morning. #véloMTL

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Les pistes cyclables n'occupent que 1% de la voie publique à Montréal, contre 75% pour l'automobile. Elles ne reçoivent que 7% du financement routier à Montréal. Il y a 1,1 million de cyclistes à Montréal et... 983 000 automobilistes. Mon texte dans @lactualite.com : lactualite.com/societe/pist...

submitted 91 days ago • 15 comments

“Motonormativity” or “car brain” - cultural inability to think objectively and dispassionately about how we use cars. www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23...

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

If you want fast response of emergency services - build wide bike lanes…

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: “Removing bike -lanes from busy city streets will increase traffic congestion, according to a government document leaked amid a furious row over urban infrastructure. The findings undercut claims that the dedicated routes contribute to urban gridlock.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

The Toronto “bikelash” is negligible in Toronto itself, where city council voted 21-4 in favor of keeping its bike lanes. It’s due to angry suburbanites who want to overrule city residents’ transportation decisions. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

Truly shocking. A government knowingly legislating to make streets more dangerous. This is not just backwards, it’s evil.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

About 20 years ago, I was in a grad school class where we had a discussion with a Parisian city planner. Bikeshare in Paris had just launched. He said, "Parisians will never give up their cars." When I start getting frustrated about progress, I think of that conversation.

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

Ce que je reproche le plus à ce chroniqueur est qu’il confond le concept d’une consultation avec celui d’un référendum. Une consultation devrait servir à améliorer l’acceptabilité sociale d’un projet, pas a decider si on va de l’avant avec le projet. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

submitted 99 days ago • 10 comments

"The mark of a great city isn't how it treats its special places, but how it treats its ordinary ones" - Aaron Renn

submitted 101 days ago • 12 comments