Sounds like a great idea – a high-vis vest that is NOT embarrassing to wear … I need one of those :)

And I actually saw a kind of high-visibility vest I’d actually wear at cycles Dumoulin – all-black mesh, with a diagonal silver-reflective cross covering the back. I don’t usually cycle late at night though (I’m a boomer and early riser and early to bed type) but we need to carry lights around now, in the late autumn, as the sun goes down around 4:30 so many people would get caught in the dark returning home from work.

The Rachel path has been widened and made safer in other ways, this summer.

That’s two really good points. I hadn’t thought of them. I’ll take it down when I am back at my PC (can’t edit my posts on my IPhone.)

Petition for better bike parking but please don’t lock up in exit ways from buidlings.

Thanks John! Interestingly, Dave Moulton is also complaining about badly behaved cyclists today.
Hard to even imagine the Montreal cycling scene being so different! When were you last there?

There were a few nice bike lanes, and many bad ones. The worst was Rachel St, with parking on the outside. Turning cars couldn’t see cyclists behind the parked cars. Several cyclists were killed on that one little path. I worked at a bike shop on the corner of Rachel & DeBullion, and heard squealing brakes from accidents and near misses at least once a day. I wonder what the actual statistics are now with Bixi?

John

You should, it’s totally worth it. Plus there’s lots of other cool biking too, which I will talk about in my next post. We are thinking of going on a vacation in either London England or Melbourne Australia, JUST BECAUSE they have Bix …