Bike Walk Bus Toronto

This is the second in a multi-part series where I reflect on my time that I spent in Montreal recently. There are few better symbols for the city of Montreal than an orange traffic cone. It does not matter where in the city you are, there are cones signifying construction right nearby. Some cones have even been around for sixteen years ! While the city's chamber of commerce hopes to see cone usage and construction delays reduced , summer being a season of construction is something that will stick around forever.  While every Canadian city has a construction season opposite their winter, Montreal's season is extremely disruptive. In this blog post, I will talk about some of the good about how the city mitigates construction-related issues, and some of the bad. The Good One thing that Montreal does really well is ensuring that any closures leave space for all road users. If a road has a bike lane, orange cones will mark out a rerouted bike path. If the sidewalk is blocked, then t...

  This is the first in a multi-part series where I reflect on my time that I spent in Montreal recently. I'm going to start by saying this, which I had said before: transit in Montreal is not  better than transit in Toronto. Yes, the Montreal Metro is better than the TTC subway, but the EXO regional rail network and the STM's bus services are, overall, not good. While I held that view prior to my most recent visit in Montreal, making the point of taking a wide variety of routes opened my eyes to just how many issues there really with the bus network in particular in the city. In this blog post, I will outline some of my reasons as to why Montreal's bus network is significantly lacking, and why it fails to live up to Toronto's. The reasons are as follows: Issues with frequency, span, and poor management; Incomplete network: dead-end routes and weird terminal points; Incomplete network: too peak-oriented; and Wasting of buses. This piece is a bit technical in nature, but ...