The woman we know who is training to run a marathon this spring in Boston is being sponsored by a Montreal company that is bringing pay-to-use-a-bike transportation to Montreal. Apparently Bixi is launching this spring and you’ll be able to pay to borrow and ride a bike around the city and then park it wherever there is another drop-off/pick-up spot. Seems very European, although I believe there is some difficulty with the bikes getting stolen overseas. I wonder how it will work in Montreal, since everyone in this city has had their bike stolen at least once or five times.
The city does seem to be becoming more bike-friendly. They’ve laid out a new bike path on Cote-St-Catherine and installed one in downtown last year. We are finding that we don’t take the car nearly as often anymore with Ian having a permanent office downtown and Amelia & I choosing to walk whenever we go out to do errands. When Amelia gets a little bigger, I wonder if we’ll start biking places more frequently as well.