[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Photo cc newton64"][/caption] Je ne sais pas quoi faire. Renouveler ou ne pas renouveler mon abonnement BIXI. Et j’ai jusqu’au 31 juillet à prendre une décision. Lors de l’arrivée du BIXI, je suis tombé amoureux. C’était 2009. J'arrivai naguère à Montréal de Lyon où son Vélo’v était ma vie. Durant cette époque, il semblait que le BIXI ait corrigé tous les défauts d’autres systèmes mondiaux de vélo-partage La 1re année, j’étais accro du BIXI La 2e année, je suis devenu mesuré, modéré, tiède. Je ne peux continuer à excuser ses défauts :

Melbourne. London. Hip Hop videos. Bixi, the homegrown sensation, seems to be popping up everywhere. (Well, everywhere except NDG, Parc-Extension, North of the 40, l'Est de l'Île ... but those places don't really count, do they?) Music video : The Bixi Anthem, by Da Gryptions

Riding Portland's LRT is a breeze with your bike - Image from Thomas Le Ngo's Flickr page As North American urban planners grapple with the challenge of moving away from an auto-centric vision of urban mobility, new attention is being given to ways to integrate cycling with public transport. This marriage may hold the key to expanding the reach of existing transit service and encouraging "spillover" mode share gains, and is being successfully implemented in cities like Portland, Oregon, and all over  Europe. Montreal is aiming to capitalize on this synergy, ...

Source: Statistics Canada By Emily Richardson — cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic Despite dramatic differences in population, density, infrastructure, and growth, there is remarkable consistency between commuting patterns in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Halifax, particularly when it comes to travelling by car. And incidentally, when it comes to getting us out of them, we seem to find buses and bike lanes unconvincing. A closer look at our most recent census data raises some surprising – and some predictable – findings about the way we get to work and how preferences change as our cities grow. First a few words on sources and statistics: All data in this article, with the exception of bike lane information, is based on the 2006 census of Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal's census metropolitan areas with trends from the 2001 census. I will be the first to concede two important shortcomings in the data. First, neither the number of cities nor the number of data points within each city is sufficient for any analysis to be statistically significant (in other words, proper analysis requires more, and more robust, data to hold up to scrutiny). Second, the data is a static snapshot in time, and it lacks any context that might explain why the upcoming 2011 census might paint a vastly different picture. But despite these drawbacks, the census data does highlight some consistencies between cities and concerns about the economic, social, and environmental implications of our commuting habits. It remains to be seen whether erratic fuel prices, transit-pass tax incentives, and growing bike-lane networks over the past four years will meaningfully influence our commuting habits by 2011. In the meantime, comments and observations are welcomed in response to this anecdotal food for thought.

Concern about cycling safety is at a high after four cyclists were killed by vehicles on rural Quebec roads over the past week. Tomorrow, fourteen communities around the province will hold a "tour de silence", where cyclists take to the streets in silence to commemorate those have been victims of road accidents. The event aims to raise awareness about sharing the road among both cyclists and drivers. But Montreal, where cycling and cycling accidents are at an all-time high, is not on ...