{"id":1108,"date":"2006-08-29T21:49:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T01:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2006-08-29T21:52:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T01:52:20","slug":"montreal-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/08\/29\/montreal-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Montreal<\/p>\n

On my recent trip to Montreal, I found the city’s cycling projects very interesting. Of course, Montreal cyclists will tell you they have many problems — paths that go nowhere, and also some odd paths that shift back and forth between parallel streets (and are therefore ignored).<\/p>\n

But what impressed me was the degree of intervention<\/em> in the roadway exhibited by Montreal bike lanes. None of the apologetic “squeeze one in where convenient” approach of Toronto bike lanes. Montreal’s bike lanes are interventionist, completely reshaping the roadway. Above is the major pavement markings given to bike lanes — a left turn for a dedicated counterflow bike lane, and major markings for the shared lane going the other way. These markings say “bikes BELONG here.”<\/p>\n

Below is an example of a road that has been completely re-engineered for bikes — a whole car lane has been taken out, and part of the road has been set aside for bike lanes going both ways, marked not just by paint but also by poles in the road.<\/p>\n

\"Two-way<\/p>\n

In terms of places to lock bikes, Montreal was until recently far behind Toronto’s pervasive ring-and-post program. All they had were occasional small lockups (with ads on them), at most one a block (on the left in the image below). But this situation is changing rapidly, as Montreal takes out parking spaces on streets and replaces them with multi-bike lockup units (below right and in a previous post<\/a>). The space is clearly demarcated for bikes.<\/p>\n

\"Bike<\/p>\n

The above photo is taken on Ste. Catherine, Montreal’s busiest shopping street — the equivalent of taking out a parking space at Bloor and Bay.<\/p>\n

While much of Toronto is well-served by ring-and-posts, this idea would be very useful in a few heavily-biked areas where it’s not convenient to put lots of ring-and-posts. I’m thinking for example of Kensington Market, which has a remarkable lack of bike parking in its most heavily used areas (probably because the sidewalks are narrow?) but gets a lot of bike traffic. Taking away one or two parking spaces near Baldwin and Kensington and replacing them with something like this might make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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