Is Montreal a bike-friendly city?

Q: I mean, are there special bands for bikes?Do a lot of people have bikes?

A: There are plenty of bike paths in Montreal. Montreal has over 300km of roadway dedicated to biking on the island. At our office near Atwater, we have two people that bike in daily during the summer months and then shower at the office. Oddly enough, I have seen the exact opposite of what the Goddess of Grammar encountered. Many motorists try to go out of the way to accomodate people on bikes, but I myself have witnessed cyclists that dart out into traffic without signalling, and one cyclist nearly ran me down and started cursing at me for crossing the street on the walk signal after HE ran the red light! The worst place is Sherbrooke Street. There is so much traffic (two lanes each way), parked cars on both sides, and the cyclists choose to roll along on this already dangerous street when there are two excellent bike paths nearby (one block north on Cote St. Antoine, or one block south on De Maisonneuve and through Westmount Park.) I guess the only way to decide would be to try it out yourself.

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