Emma Cardinal-Sirois

@emmacardinal.com

Urban planning student in Montréal, Canada. she/them :3 Étudiante en urbanisme à Montréal. elle ✉️ info@emmacardinal.com

a second borough in #montreal wants to remove a bike path during the winter 🫠 "The Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough intends to remove one side of the Terrebonne St. bike lanes this winter to make room for more parking." montrealgazette.com/news/local-p...

Terrebonne St. will drop to one bike lane in winter to allow more parking, borough says

Councillor justifies decision by noting there's a sharp drop-off in cycling traffic during the winter.

montrealgazette.com

this is proof that you can’t turn a street into a shared street simply by adding a few traffic signs. cars usually go above the 20 km/h (12 mi/h) speed limit here and i’ve never seen pedestrians use the whole width of the street. 📍 saint-hubert plaza, #montreal

commercial street with two sidewalks, a lane of parking and a live traffic lane. there are two signs indicating that it’s a shared street, but the design of the street doesn’t incite pedestrians to use the whole space.

this is proof that you can’t turn a street into a shared street simply by adding a few traffic signs. cars usually go above the 20 km/h (12 mi/h) speed limit here and i’ve never seen pedestrians use the whole width of the street. 📍 saint-hubert plaza, #montreal

commercial street with two sidewalks, a lane of parking and a live traffic lane. there are two signs indicating that it’s a shared street, but the design of the street doesn’t incite pedestrians to use the whole space.

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The TTC says more than 60,000 used the Scarborough Busway on its first day of operations this week. The four-kilometer route runs from Kennedy Station to Ellesmere along the route of the decommissioned Scarborough RT. #ToPoli

#montreal is about to welcome its biggest sporting event since the 1976 olympics. chrono, the official public transit app of the region, can't show any of the bus detours caused by the event. @transit.app, which is built in mtl and is translink's and oc transpo's official app, shows all the detours.

a screenshot from chrono and a screenshot from transit. chrono doesn't display the detour for the 80 north, while transit shows it.

The UPA commissioned a survey on Alto, tested many of its own arguments against the project, and compared it with a particularly favourable version of TGF. After all of that, 59% of Quebecers still supported Alto. We took a closer look at what the numbers actually show. go-alto.ca/en/updates/u...

UPA survey still finds majority support for Alto | GO ALTO

The UPA sought to show that support for Alto weakens as people learn more about the project. Its own survey still arrives at a difficult result to ignore: after the full exercise, 59% of Quebecers sup...

go-alto.ca