Montreal to expand bike paths

Montreal officials want us to think of bicycles as a real alternative to car use. That’s why they are pledging 10 million dollars to expand bicycle routes in the city. The plan is to add seventy kilometers of bike path across the city and the greater Montreal area. We already have an existing five hundred and thirty.

The city official responsible for the bike path development, Michel Bissonet, says that they are hoping bike paths will become more accessible and better integrated in the city. Some similar projects have not been completed in the last two years. Problems with contractors and weather changes are said to be the cause. The city is promising eight hundred kilometers by 2015.