Thirteen pedestrian streets this summer
Thirteen pedestrian streets are announced for this summer.
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Bill Binns 19:04 on 2021-04-14 Permalink
There is no such thing as a pedestrian street in this town. You can keep cars out but there is not an inch of public outdoor space on this island where you can be free of bicycles.
MarcG 20:24 on 2021-04-14 Permalink
It’s not the fault of the organizers, Wellington has signs that say “get off your damn bike” and people just ignore them. The bike path by the river doesn’t allow scooters and there are scooters. I’ve seen cars parked on the walking path nearby recently. I like to wallk down the middle of one-way streets, fair is fair. What’s your point, Bill?
Bill Binns 08:37 on 2021-04-15 Permalink
I didn’t say it was the fault of the organizers. It’s clearly the fault of the police who like to choose for themselves which laws are worth enforcing. Like politicians, they fear the wrath of the city’s most powerful political group, Velo Quebec.
Kate 10:35 on 2021-04-15 Permalink
the city’s most powerful political group, Velo Quebec
Off your meds again, Bill?
Bill Binns 10:54 on 2021-04-15 Permalink
@Kate – When “Tennis Quebec” successfully lobbies to convert hundreds of kilometers of traffic lanes into tennis courts let me know.
DeWolf 11:55 on 2021-04-15 Permalink
It really is remarkable that Quebec is the only place in the world with bike paths! Must be that all-powerful Vélo Québec lobby.
dwgs 14:48 on 2021-04-15 Permalink
I often enjoy watching you stir the pot Bill but you gotta know when to sit down and take the ‘L’ as my kids would say.
Raymond Lutz 16:04 on 2021-04-15 Permalink
“stir the pot”? Cute idiom! L’expression vernaculaire serait “brasser d’la marde” 🙂
JS 18:34 on 2021-04-15 Permalink
Questions:’How many bike-pedestrian accidents occur every year? Not just in Montreal, but in the world?
Answer: You’re kidding, right? Go back to kvetching on the Gazette’s FB page.
mare 00:43 on 2021-04-16 Permalink
@JS The answer is zero in Montreal, because an accident has to include a car here in order to be counted. Source: the SAAQ, who told me that after I had a bike accident with a pedestrian.
A kid jumped in front of me on the bike path and I managed to not hit him/her by braking really hard. So hard that I went over the handlebar and landed on my head. My helmet broke, but my head survived. However now, 16 years later, I still have serious health issues because of the accident that wasn’t.
(I don’t even know if it was a boy or a girl, or their name, because I was carted away in an ambulance and the cops didn’t even make a report. So again, no accident.)
Kate 13:45 on 2021-04-16 Permalink
A few years ago I interviewed a guy for Openfile who was one of the top public health dudes (still may be, I don’t know) and he was on top of motor traffic vs. pedestrian stats and situations, but when I asked him about bicycle vs. pedestrian incidents he said they were so negligible that his department didn’t even keep track. But perhaps the real reason was, as mare says, that the SAAQ doesn’t record them.