How a Cold, Hilly Canadian City Became a Year-Round Cycling Success Story
How a Cold, Hilly Canadian City Became a Year-Round Cycling Success Story
Who would go cycling in snowy conditions, in a city with a 764-foot-high hill right in the middle of it? Montrealers, and the city’s bikeshare program has the stats to prove it.
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Edit: a bunch of my post got truncated...
Mont Royal looms over downtown at an elevation of 764 feet, and is the site of multiple universities, including a campus of Universite de Montréal
Maybe i'm misinterpreting this, but it sounds a bit misleading. The university is on the slopes of the hill, nowhere near the top
In general, this article is a bit premature. The winter cycling pilot was limited to downtown and a few other boroughs and not the whole regular network... And we also benefited from a very mild winter. Not sure if we can declare a "year round cycling success story", just yet
That being said, this is good news and i hope to be able to use the bixi in the winter next year (i live in one of the boroughs that didnt have winter coverage)
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UdM main campus is on the north slope of the mountain.
Are you thinking of UQAM maybe?
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Whoops... I messed up my post. I meant to say that UdM is nowhere near the top of the mountain....
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There is only one hill, what goes up must come down!