{"id":4273,"date":"2009-05-18T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/05\/18\/montreal-monday-bixi-bike-system-st-jacques-escarpment\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:36:26","slug":"montreal-monday-bixi-bike-system-st-jacques-escarpment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/05\/18\/montreal-monday-bixi-bike-system-st-jacques-escarpment\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Monday: Bixi Bike System, St-Jacques Escarpment, Photo de Jour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/le-debut-du-bixi.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-montreal-monday.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; Montreal&#8217;s public bike service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bixisystem.com\/home\/\">Bixi<\/a> was launched this past week.\u00a0 Emile Thomas looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.ca\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/15\/bixi-contre-le-monde\/&amp;ei=XA0OSpSMHsqPmAf1w-jxBw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=result&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dbixi%2Bcontre%2Ble%2Bmonde%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Dqkn\">how Bixi compares<\/a> to similar systems in Lyon, Barcelona, Berlin and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Alanah Haffez tracks the evolution of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/13\/turcot-glen-yards-and-the-st-jacques-escarpment-through-the-ages\/\">the St-Jacques Escarpment<\/a> through the ages.\u00a0 She comments on how this area has been isolated throughout its history, first by its natural landscape, then by railway and highway infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; For those who love red lights, Guillaume St-Jean has the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/05\/16\/photo-du-jour-amour\/\">photo de jour<\/a>\u00a0for you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Emile Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. &bull; Montreal&#8217;s public bike service Bixi was launched this past week.\u00a0 Emile Thomas looks at how Bixi compares to similar<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/05\/18\/montreal-monday-bixi-bike-system-st-jacques-escarpment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montreal Monday: Bixi Bike System, St-Jacques Escarpment, Photo de Jour&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4071,"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":[7,13,24,50],"tags":[433,532,12200,23,11218,12199,546,38,19,575],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-green-space","category-history","category-infrastructure","tag-barcelona","tag-berlin","tag-emile-thomas","tag-environment","tag-guillaume-st-jean","tag-highway-infrastructure","tag-lyon","tag-montreal","tag-toronto","tag-washington"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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