{"id":3999,"date":"2009-02-02T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/02\/02\/sneak-peek-at-bixi-montreals-bike-share-program\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T20:50:47","slug":"sneak-peek-at-bixi-montreals-bike-share-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/02\/sneak-peek-at-bixi-montreals-bike-share-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneak peek at Bixi, Montreal&#8217;s bike share program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3513\/3241534845_1bdb751919.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/01\/31\/sneak-peak-of-a-bixi-bike\/\">Cross-posted<\/a> from Spacing Montreal, <strong>by Chris Erb<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MONTREAL<\/strong> &#8212; Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend some of the Micro\/Macro conference hosted by CAPS (Canadian Association of Planning Students) which took place between the four universities. A representative from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bixi.ca\/fr\/accueil\/\">Bixi<\/a>, the public bike-sharing program set to be launched this spring gave a presentation (which I unfortunately missed) on the project.\u00a0 As everyone lined up for lunch, one of the bikes were rolled out for everyone to have a look at.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t have time to take any close-up shots of the different parts of the bike but was glad to be able to take a good look at it.<\/p>\n<p>The bike, designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallairedesign.com\/flash\/index.html\">Michel Dallaire Design Industriel<\/a> (also responsible for much of the furniture in the Grand Biblioth\u00e0\u00a8que as well as much of the urban design of the Quartier International) seems to be very well built and designed.\u00a0 The bike is incredibly simple and obviously made to be very rugged with all delicate parts such as the brakes and derailleur encased in plastic or metal to keep them from being damaged or tampered with.\u00a0 I was however, surprised by how heavy it was and by the fact that it has very wide tires rather than thinner tires that are generally much better of city streets.\u00a0 This design will inevitably cause the bikes to be much slower but perhaps that is the rationale behind the design.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I was very impressed with the bike and look forward to seeing them on the streets this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this map (below) of the future station locations has been posted on the Bixi website.\u00a0 Click the map to see a larger version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/174.133.183.18\/wp-content\/themes\/mw3\/images\/carte_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3493\/3242464126_6de0cbf88a.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Cross-posted from Spacing Montreal, by Chris Erb &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; MONTREAL &#8212; Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend some of the Micro\/Macro conference hosted by CAPS (Canadian Association of Planning Students) which took place between the four universities.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/02\/sneak-peek-at-bixi-montreals-bike-share-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Sneak peek at Bixi, Montreal&#8217;s bike share program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11404,11405,11390,7974,7655,38,1287],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","tag-bike-share-program-editor","tag-bixi","tag-canadian-association-of-planning-students","tag-chris-erb","tag-michel-dallaire","tag-montreal","tag-representative"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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