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Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

In other news, the Montreal borough of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie just released their 2020 plans for new separated cycling lanes.

This year the borough will add 65 km of new separated bike lanes on 2 major east west avenues: Bellechasse and St. Zotique. To do so, both avenues will be converted to one way streets for all auto traffic. This is part of Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie's overall cycling plan - "Vision velo" - to implement the largest network of separated bike lanes in North America. Reconfiguration of above 2 streets will begin in June.

Announcement in French: https://montreal.ca/articles/vision...oWropN-yO_OnAYkkE4wb1AptZIC5p3v_I5sgiRWENNs0I
Here's an English source: https://copenhagenize.eu/news-archi...er-100km-of-safe-active-lanes-for-summer-2020
 
Montreal's summer plans: An extra 327 km of bike paths, pedestrian lanes
Montreal Gazette

Montreal will add 327 kilometres of bicycle paths and pedestrian lanes, while some thoroughfares will be closed to motorized traffic this summer. It is part of an effort to open up the city — and its businesses — to residents in the wake of months of COVID-19 lockdown.

Full article

Rue Ste-Catherine (downtown), avenue du Mont-Royal (Plateau Mont-Royal), rue Wellington (Verdun) will be closed to car traffic this summer.
 
Meanwhile, in Toronto...

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It is actually quite pathetic... For longer distance commuters like me what will be really nice is if the bike lanes actually allow cyclists to get from the inner suburbs (Scarborough, Etobicoke, North York) to the downtown core and back with the added safety provided by bike lanes. These Active TO bike lanes are not even connected to each other. Having bike lanes along Bloor Danforth and along Yonge from Queens Quay to Finch would be a freaking start. Another along Birchmount or Midland for that connects Scarborough / Markham would be a very nice addition.
 
Fully agree, the Bloor extensions should be prioritized, extended and fast tracked. It's already designed.to Runnymede
 

Pretty much same approach as Montreal and how they will be adding 300 km + of bike lanes and pedestrian streets in the next 4-8 weeks. Many will be temporary while some will be permanent additions (such as the major east west / north south "bike highways" or REVs). Most are just reconfigs of existing autocentric streets and really don't require all this elaborate drama that we see here in TO.
 
Councillors Cressy and Layton pushing for cycle tracks on University Avenue from Adelaide to Davenport.


And as expected...

Coun. Stephen Holyday (Ward 2 Etobicoke Centre) said he doesn’t support the idea because it doesn’t allow time for proper public input and the city needs to carefully watch its spending as a result of the costs incurred fighting the pandemic, estimated at $1.5 billion this year.

Stephen Holyday is against anything that supports cyclists or pedestrians.
 

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