Cycling is often as fast as driving
A study from the GPS company TomTom has found that, during rush hour, cycling is almost as fast as driving because of traffic jams. But this isn’t new news.
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Ian 12:13 on 2024-01-12 Permalink
Cycling downtown is way faster if you blow through the reds all the time 😉
JP 12:36 on 2024-01-12 Permalink
During peak rush hour, walking can also be just as fast in many cases.
Ian 16:23 on 2024-01-12 Permalink
Walking is certainly faster than taking the bus in the downtown core during rush hour.
Mozai 19:35 on 2024-01-12 Permalink
I live in Plateau and I had a job in the banking district; I’d usually take the Metro, during rush-hour, but one day I timed myself walking home and it was the same length of time. Maybe because of how often I had to wait for the next train because the one pulling into the station was full.
carswell 21:26 on 2024-01-12 Permalink
@Mozai Just curious as to what’s considered the banking district these days. Are you referring to the old district (St-Jacques in Old Montreal)? The head offices and other major buildings are more scattered these days: Royal Bank in PVM, National Bank on Boubou, Scotia Bank on Sherbrooke, Desjardins in the Quartier des spectacles, CIBC on Dorchester Square and dog knows where Laurentian Bank has got to.
Kate 09:29 on 2024-01-13 Permalink
The Laurentian Bank has been withdrawing itself from physical existence. When I moved to Villeray there was a nice solid bank building at the corner of Jarry and St‑Denis, originally a City & District location. Then that branch closed (the space stayed empty for a long time, and is now a bakery). I was shooed over to a branch in Little Italy, which moved once, and then, one day, when I was in the area and wanted to use their ATM, I discovered it had vanished without trace, without informing its customers in any way.
Now if I want to talk to anyone about bank business I have to schlep over to a spot on Papineau, in a direction I never go for any other reason. It’s not really a bank branch – they have some small offices for discussing things privately with clients, and a big room with people on phones. Nobody handles anything as dirty as cash.
thomas 09:31 on 2024-01-13 Permalink
Laurentian Bank is on McGill College. Which is where many financial service companies are located.
carswell 10:45 on 2024-01-13 Permalink
@Thomas You’re right (1981 McGill College) but it took some digging to find out. For a long time, that was the Laurentian Bank building but it dropped the branding a few years ago during one of the bank’s bouts of cost-cutting. At the time, LB also downsized and moved some of its departments to other buildings; I’d assumed head office had gone too. Thanks for informing me otherwise.
@Kate Back in the ’90s, when they were one of my clients, I considered switching to them. Then they closed the CDN branch (now the Première Moisson between Queen-Mary and Jean-Brillant) and, a few years later, the Van Horne (Outremont) branch. Not long ago, they sold the Parc-Laurier branch to BMO. So there are now no branches easily accessible to me and, as you note, no ATMs in the metro stations anymore. The institution’s original name (changed in 1980) was the Montreal City and District Savings Bank; that wouldn’t work now!