Are Montreal cops monitoring this blog? They put out a press release today about bicycle safety.
I had another near-death experience on Ste. Catherine St. this morning, wondering as I dodged driver-side doors and was cut off by taxis about who in the Gazette newsroom would write my obit and whether they’d quote yesterday’s prescient blog entry.
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May 24, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I quit riding my bike to work in Montreal after a car door threw me into the middle of Decarie Blvd at rush hour one afternoon. I loved riding, but I didn’t love nearly being killed.
It’s not just a Montreal thing. In Halifax we have a bike path down the St. Margaret’s Bay Road, right as you enter the Halifax Peninsula, that is tiny, narrow and poorly marked. It ends suddenly (for no apparent reason), and the road carries on. The bike path’s terminus marked by a sign showing a cyclist and a car, and bearing the slogan “Share the road.” Yeah, well it would be a whole lot easier to share it if there were a bike path.
You know, this sounds like a blog posting for me. Why am I wasting it on your comments? Cut and paste, coming right up.
June 7, 2007 at 6:43 am
I was “doored” this past Sunday on Maisonneuve heading east just past Saint Denis. I’ve lived and biked in the US, France, Germany and will continue to bike here in Montreal but I find that the city has some serious upgrading that needs to be done to it’s bike lanes. It’s crazy that it’s taken so long just to get a lane going through downtown. Then city seems to slowly be getting the message that we need increased forms of alternate transit but some for those who have never lived outside North America please realize there’s a long way to go. Does anyone know of any direct way to get involved with campaining for increased public transit and bicycle transit? I would like to get involved so I’m not just sitting at my computer, nursing my bruises and road rash, complaining about it.
June 12, 2007 at 8:34 pm
You’ve got the more mainstream Vélo Québec and the activist
Vélocité Montréal, which organizes “critical mass” events in the city.
June 30, 2007 at 10:27 pm
[...] all my complaining about evil motorists (myself excepted) and the dangers of not having bike paths, guess who had a bike accident of his own [...]
August 13, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I am from U.S.A. and I am spending 3 months in Montreal this summer. I am so very impressed with the biking roads that I can’t compliment them enough.
I appreciate even the broken ones with froth heaves all over them. It is a fantastic system and I ride on them from 20 to 60 miles every day. I can’t get enough.
I arrived here on July 1, 2007 and will leave (sadly) on Oct. 1, 2007 to go back to U.S.
Thanks to who ever made these roads possible. The bike roads have made this the best summer I’ve ever had.
I wonder how great it would’ve been to have grown up in a place like this where you can walk out of your front door and bike for miles and miles. Or in this case kilometers and kilometers.
Avril