The new pro-car suburban mayor of #Montreal should take notes from @paris.fr
"Lesson two is that banishing cars doesn’t hurt an urban economy. Retailers often worry it will deter their customers. Studies repeatedly show it doesn’t."
#mtlpoli #urbanism #bikemtl #motonormativity #activemobility
While new #carbrain #Montreal administration cut in half the budget for new @biximontreal.com bikes and stations
#Toronto is spending $10M to add 950 bikes on its #bikeshare network
#munpoli #TOpoli #biketo #mtlpoli #velomtl #bikemtl #biximtl #activemobility
💪🏻 Du vélo de glace! / Ice biking! 🚲🧊
#velodhiver #velomtl #revmtl #verglas2026 #winterbiking #bikemtl #icestorm2026 #montreal
📷 Charles William Pelletier de @lapresse.ca ⤵️
#Montreal #velomtl #bikemtl
Il faut signaler les véhicules dans les voies cyclables
Nous sommes sûrement pire que Providence 🫣
We must report vehicles in bike lanes
We are probably worst than Providence 🫣
ℹ️ www.bikelaneuprising.com/maps/all
#Montreal @villedemontreal.montreal.ca is number 1 in @shifter.info 's heart 💙🚲💚
Followed by @villedeparis.bsky.social
#velomtl #bikemtl
Learn about cycling in 12 cities around the world here ⤵️
via @cbcnews.ca : Yvan Martineau, #Montreal Bike Show spokeperson, about the City's bike network : "Let's keep going. Let's keep moving forward."
#bikemtl #mtlpoli #velomtl
Raise your hand if you ever called 311 to congratulate the City! 😏
" #Montreal Mayor SMF says the city will undertake a review of four existing bike paths, as well as several planned ones, to “assure mobility that works for everyone,” following complaints it says it’s received "
#mtlpoli #bikemtl
We are quite well served in terms of snow clearing compared to #Toronto (a week aftre the snow storm) 😬
#wintercycling #bikeTO #bikemtl
Here are the same map settings (same map classes, same zoom level) for other cities in Canada: Victoria, BC, Halifax, NS, and Montreal, QC
#bikeyyj #bikehfx #bikemtl #velomtl
But EM cut investments in @biximontreal.com by half for 2026, from $10 M to $5 M
So expansion of the #bikeshare service won't go as fast at the previous years.
#bixi #biximtl #activemobility #bikemtl #velomtml #polmtl
The @boston.gov has equipment to plow bike lanes! ❄️🚲
which is better than the borough of Anjou in Montreal 🙃
#wintercycling #bikemtl #velomtl #velodhiver
report from @cbcnews.ca : "A portion of the path on Lajoie Avenue in the #Outremont borough, which was open last winter, will be closed off this season [...] it’s raising concerns about whether there will be similar closures under the City of #Montreal 's new administration."
#bikemtl #mtlpoli
Removing a bike lane during winter so people can store their private proprety on public space
#polmtl #velomtl #outremont #bikemtl #mtlpoli
@davewalker.bsky.social's drawing still resonates⤵️
bsky.app/profile/dave...
Montreal's cycling infrastructure was already good, and thanks to Mayor Plante's initiatives, it's even better now! It would truly be terrible if the next mayor undid all of that. #veloMTL #bikeMTL #bikesky
A report by @cbcnews.ca about the Dutch style protected intersection at Christophe-Colomb & Bellechasse in #Montreal
🚲👟🚸
w/ @jfrheault.bsky.social of @velo.qc.ca and Richard Shearmur, urban planning professor at McGill
#bikemtl #urbanism #visionzero #roadsafety #velomtl
La @villedemontreal.montreal.ca rayonne par son réseau cyclable & @biximontreal.com 🚲✨
" #Montreal ’s bike boom [...] is highly energy-efficient, costs almost nothing, reduces congestion and pollution, and obviates the need for huge car parks"
#bikemtl #velomtl #urbanism #polmtl #biximtl #mtlpoli
Un autre candidat à la mairie de #Montréal qui parle de pistes cyclables comme si c'était l'enjeu municipal du siècle 🙄
#polmtl #velomtl #bikemtl
via @debraarbec.bsky.social / @cbcnews.ca : «Futur Montréal's Jean-François Kacou is proposing a moratorium on new bike paths on commercial streets»
Bike traffic jam on the REV Saint-Denis 🚲⤵️
One more lane? 😉
#revmtl #bikemtl #velomtl
via @ctvnewsmontreal.bsky.social w/ @jfrheault.bsky.social of @velo.qc.ca : "'Bike jams' are a growing problem on #Montreal 's bike paths, with more and more residents taking the two-wheel commute."
A bit more of fact checking on claims about #Montreal bike paths by @cbcnews.ca
#velomtl #bikemtl #polmtl #mtlpoli
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via @citynewsmtl.bsky.social : "The 53-year-old man was transported to hospital with injuries to his head, and authorities feared for his life."
#velomtl #bikemtl
Vidéo par Lea-Kim du corridor de mobilité durable Henri-Bourrassa avec ses voies réservées pour autobus et pistes cyclables protégées 🚌 🚲
#revmtl #velomtl #bikemtl #montreal #transportcollectif #urbanisme
Oh please ! Cry me a river! 🙄
She started this with her audit on all bike lanes and her anti-bike candidates such as Leslie Roberts!
Bike infrastructures shouldn’t be a polarizing subject when talking about road safety and in this era of climate change
#carbrain #mtlpoli #bikemtl #velomtl
Leslie Roberts will be EM's candidate in Peter-McGill... it explains his opinion in the Gazette last month..
#polmtl #polimtl #montreal #bikemtl #velomtl
Via @cbcnews.ca : what can be done to Avenue du Parc to make it safer for cyclists and pedestrians ⤵️
#roadsafety #bikemtl
#velomtl #visionzero #urbanism #montreal
For @taras-grescoe.com 's updated text in English with the tragic death of a woman cycling on Park Avenue Sunday morning
"With @projetmontreal.org 's arrival in municipal politics [...] #Montreal began a slow, steady transformation into a genuine urban cycling powerhouse"
#bikemtl #mtlpoli
For Montrealers, ceremony will take place on the corner of Saint-Denis and Duluth streets
📅 Monday Sept. 8
🕓 4 pm
#velomtl #bikemtl #montreal
Josh Freed: " @sorayamartinezf.bsky.social has been trying to match city hall for electoral cynicism by launching a phoney war on bikes. In recent weeks, she has attacked #Montreal’s bike network, pledging to “audit” all 100 city paths and get rid of the “unsafe” ones"
#polmtl #bikemtl #waroncars
Report from @cbcnews.ca:" @mcgill.ca University researchers say cycling infrastructure in the city isn’t meeting demand. They created a new measurement tool to calculate how much street space is available to different kinds of commuters."
#bikemtl #urbanism #activemobility #micromobility #velomtl
Link to the @mcgill.ca study in this article ⤵️
"The study introduces a new measure called the Equal Infrastructure Allocation (EIA) score, which compares how much dedicated infrastructure space is available per traveler, for different modes of transport."
#bikemtl #velomtl #polmtl #urbanism
