How a Cold, Hilly Canadian City Became a Year-Round Cycling Success Story

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/3/19/how-a-cold-hilly-canadian-city-became-a-year-round-cycling-success-story

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9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Edit: a bunch of my post got truncated...

Mont Royal looms over downtown at an elevation of 764 feet, and is the site of multiple universities, including a campus of Universite de Montréal

Maybe i'm misinterpreting this, but it sounds a bit misleading. The university is on the slopes of the hill, nowhere near the top

In general, this article is a bit premature. The winter cycling pilot was limited to downtown and a few other boroughs and not the whole regular network... And we also benefited from a very mild winter. Not sure if we can declare a "year round cycling success story", just yet

That being said, this is good news and i hope to be able to use the bixi in the winter next year (i live in one of the boroughs that didnt have winter coverage)

Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

UdM main campus is on the north slope of the mountain.

Are you thinking of UQAM maybe?

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

Whoops... I messed up my post. I meant to say that UdM is nowhere near the top of the mountain....

AI_655321@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

There is only one hill, what goes up must come down!