{"id":226,"date":"2007-11-02T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=226"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:54:42","slug":"de-maisonneuve-bike-lane-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/02\/de-maisonneuve-bike-lane-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"De Maisonneuve bike lane opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a123.g.akamai.net\/f\/123\/12465\/1d\/media.canada.com\/idl\/mtgz\/20071102\/133596-43791.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\">After 20 years of demands by local cyclists, and a construction process that inadvertently cracked a tunnel beneath the street, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=14e9871d-c53b-432e-b8e3-dacb3093d2ef\">de Maisonneuve bike lane is finally open<\/a>. Spanning the entire length of downtown, from Berri St. in the east to Atwater Ave. in the west, the lane buckles a huge gap in Montreal&#8217;s bike network, giving cyclists a crosstown alternative to busy streets such as Sherbrooke. Also, unlike the bike lanes on Rachel or Br\u00e9beuf, this one will be open year-round.<\/p>\n<p>By next summer, the bike lane will extend all the way to Lachine, passing through Westmount, NDG, Montreal West and Ville St. Pierre. The only problem is that, at the moment, Westmount is dragging its heels on extending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/azzaelea\/503889177\/\">its own de Maisonneuve bike lane<\/a>, which stops at Greene Ave., to Atwater. Even then, unlike the downtown stretch, it won&#8217;t be open year round.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen the lane in its final state and it&#8217;s awfully good-looking. Well-marked and separated from other traffic by a concrete median, it not only serves as a bike path but as a traffic-calming device that narrows de Maisonneuve and forces drivers to slow down. But I haven&#8217;t used it and I probably won&#8217;t in the near future, since I only ride my bike around my neighbourhood. So I&#8217;m throwing this out to all of you bike-riding Spacing Montreal readers: what do you think of the de Maisonneuve bike lane? Smooth riding or are there significant flaws? The Gazette photo you see here certainly seems to indicate that the driver-cyclist conflicts that plague the Rachel St. bike path seem to be a problem here, too. Let us know.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo by Pierre Obendrauf, The Gazette<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 years of demands by local cyclists, and a construction process that inadvertently cracked a tunnel beneath the street, the de Maisonneuve bike lane is finally open. 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