Bikes / Vélo

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Boundaries or Barriers for Petite-Patrie-Mile-End?

Last summer I moved from NDG to Petite Patrie and, for the fist time, I began to move through the city primarily in a North-South axis – with most...

NDG cyclists make the case for a safe connection

Source: Bing Maps NDG residents fed up with confusing, scary intersections take note: Tomorrow, your local cycling group will be meeting at Décarie and de...

Bike Counters Find Cycling Trips Have Doubled on Laurier Ave

Bicycles tend to be quiet, flexible, and take up little space. Unfortunately, this affords cyclists relatively little visibility on the city streets...

Pourquoi ce n’est pas chic de cadenasser son vélo à un arbre.

Un cycliste, qui peut pédaler la moitié de la ville pour se rendre à un lieu, devient parfois paresseux lorsqu’il est question de stationner son vélo...

Between design and day-to-day in the QDS

After the construction crews pack up, after the fanfare of the grand opening, after the grass takes root and the dust settles, only then begins a quieter...

Taking Responsibility for the Quartier des spectacles Bike Path Debacle

Paul Arcand, the radio show host, often characterizes Montreal as the city-where-no-one-ever-takes-responsibility. Yet, there are instances where the...

New bike infrastructure arrives in Montreal

This summer has seen the arrival of two new types of biking infrastructure in Montreal: bike boxes on Milton and a hybrid bike path/lane on St-Urbain...

Paysages et pièges d’un travailleur cycliste

Paysages et pièges de mon parcours de 16km quotidien vers le nord de Laval l’an dernier. Celui de cette année sera un peu moins nord, mais plus...

Feeling the Region in our Feet

Last weekend, I took part in Walk the Region, a journey on foot Pointe-Aux-Anglais, in Oka, to Sainte-Hilaire, in an attempt to understand what the heck...

Events guide: Mikael Colville-Andersen to speak at the Grande Bibliothèque

Last year, Kristian S. Villadsen and Louise Kielgast of Gehl Architects visited Montreal to tell us how we might “Copenhagenize” our city (the...

Bixi ad backlash

The third season of the Bixi bike sharing program has started with a few changes. More docking stations have been added to four more neighbourhoods...