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Montrealize: The Cycle Chic Manifesto

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. The Cycle Chic Manifesto. As a huge fan of Mikael Colville-Andersen's efforts to help regular citizens reappropriate the practice of cycling as a normal activity, I am reproducing here the Copenhagen Cycle Chic manifesto. I totally and wholehearted agree with most (well, I do take issue with points 7 and 9) of the principles in this manifesto. Thank you Mikael for contributing to the promotion of common sense. 8 J’aurai toujours u...

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Montrealize: June 2012

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Friday, June 15, 2012. As stupid as it gets. It is a very unfortunate fact that, still to this very day, cycling is seen as either a "choosing the right bike" thing or "individual freedom/choice/civil right" issue. Not many have made the connection between cycling rates and cycling infrastructures, even though the lack thereof is the single reason for low cycling rates in North America, along with the worship of automobiles. They could ...

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Montrealize: October 2011

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Monday, October 24, 2011. I cannot remember in which post I mention these. Bornes escamotables. Random picture from the Internet. Others walk or bike. How come they are not more widespread? A perfect area to implement them is the Old Montréal with its narrow Nouvelle France. A closer look. These ones do not look magnetic. Still. Keeps off unwanted traffic, and especially, prevents any rat running in residential streets! First of all, vi...

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Montrealize: April 2012

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Hell will freeze over. Before something like this is even envisaged in here. Such concepts would just curl our North America neurons. Especially in Quebec where people drive like they own the streets. There is it, as seen on Copenhaganize! Thursday, April 5, 2012. Petite mise au point. I've been meaning to do that for a while now but got lazy. I am a big time procrastinator. What is your problem with Lululemon?

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Montrealize: February 2012

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Montreal gas prices jump 17 cents in a week". This morning. Prices went from 1.26 $ to 1.44 $ a litre. A litre! That's quite a jump in a week and I truly hope it is only the beginning. Read the rest here. It can only go up my friends! It is a structural situation you see. Bridge tolls are coming our way. Oh yeah, by the way, Montreal is an island. Montreal metro system (the underground or the tube) is having ...

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Montrealize: "Le p'tit train du nord" bike trail - Part 1

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Monday, September 5, 2011. Le p'tit train du nord" bike trail - Part 1. Yes folks, I am back! Were I left in the previous post. We're just back from a very nice weekend during which we managed to avoid all the downpours. Lucky as we were, we biked all weekend in-between the showers, dodging all the drops, summoning both thunder and lightening to materialise only at night. And boy they did! Was at Km 25, at 300 m from the trail entry.

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Montrealize: November 2011

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. I am such a weirdo! Last week, as I was both browsing the latest online edition of Momentum Magazine. And noodling around on their website, I came upon an article about how Lululemon. Had being putting a commuter line ("see me ride") on trial for this fall. Big shock: I was not aware of this even though I am perpetually lurking around. So I went to the website: rien. Then all the sudden, the new sales price w...

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Montrealize: Share the road

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Saturday, June 9, 2012. This year again, Vélo Quebec. Is campaigning for a courteous sharing of the road. By all users. Experts have already given us a piece of their minds on the "sharing the road theory" but hey, everyone is free to be wrong and years behind. Too bad this misconception is perpetuated on public funds. Ahem. They are just being recycled. They get along so well in our garages. Why not in our streets. The main TV spot.

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Montrealize: January 2012

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Glimpses into one of the most vibrant North American cycling cities. Monday, January 16, 2012. On the joys of snow. A few days ago, a snowstorm hit the province. We accumulated 25 cm over two days. Tomorrow, we'll receive an additional 10-15 cm. Friday night, I went to my sister's place to pick up some of the furniture I put there during our summer renovations. As we do not own a car, we booked 4 hours of carshare program, Communauto. Cutting across, we're approaching the station. The three other cars pa...

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Mundo Imaginário: Agosto 2011

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Timeline 1 - processo. Timeline 2 - Montréal. 3 de agosto de 2011. Ciclovias e divisão social. Andar nas ciclovias da cidade tem nos mostrado melhor as divisões sociais que ela tem. De uma forma geral, Montréal tem muitas ciclovias e, no Québec inteiro tem a Route Verte. Que tem estrutura pros ciclistas cruzarem a província de vélo. As ciclovias em Montréal são divididas em escalas:. Tem a fodona, que é separada dos carros, tem sinalização específica, o asfalto costuma ser bom. O que significa que possue...