Thumbtacks strewn across Montreal bike path as tensions rise between motorists, cyclists - Montreal | Globalnews.ca
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Acts of vandalism targeting bike paths have been reported recently as one borough's plan to eliminate parking for a path for cyclists has polarized the community.

Montreal is easily one of the most bike-friendly cities in North America, and yet even here we have carbrains who feel perpetually entitled to 250 parking spaces (the amount removed for the new bike lane) over the needs of everyone else. Clearly someone felt so strongly entitled to their parking that they threw thumbtacks in the new bike lane.

  • @Nouveau_BurnswickEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    Is that 29.8% the percent of total land or the percent of total street space? The article’s wording is kind of vague.

    Dunno, I assumed total area, and balanced that by giving nearly half the area to “parking area” that didn’t count towards the number of stalls.

    I haven’t been up there, so I don’t know that the burrough is like. I’d also be unlikely to see anything not within 1km of a metro station even if I did go, so my view would be biased anyways.

    Alternatively, the population of the burrough is 143,85, so they are removing one stall for every 575 residents (all residents, not just driving residents).