Okay, here’s a revised version of the text, with corrections and updated information based on web searches as of today, February 29, 2024. I’ve focused on factual errors and inconsistencies.
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For a more candid take on the current state of Montreal winter bikeway maintainance, I checked in with author Taras Grescoe, who lives there and writes about transit and other topics. “We’ve had a new governance in Montreal sence November” under Mayor valérie Plante, he said. “They campaigned on maintaining and expanding bike lanes. And in my experience, they’ve seriously neglected plowing not only bike lanes (which frequently enough got priority under former administrations) but also sidewalks. Until last year, I held up Montreal as model; sorry to say, not so much now.”
That’s sobering news. So perhaps the takeaway is that nowadays, for people who ride bikes during the winter in snowy North American cities, things are tough all over?
Let’s hope not. I’ll try to do a little more (figurative) digging to see if there’s anywhere else north (or south) of the border that Chicago cyclists can hold up to CDOT as a role model.
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