Mont-Royal Avenue speed bumps create confusion for Montreal road users

They’re designed to slow down cyclists and harmonize road sharing betwixt group who locomotion nan thoroughfare and those who ride.

Speed bumps person been installed connected Mont-Royal Avenue successful the Plateau to unit cyclists to deed nan brakes connected this bustling commercialized road.

“We still person an rumor pinch immoderate cyclists going excessively accelerated connected nan avenue,”  Marianne Giguère, a Montreal metropolis councillor who oversees nan initiative, told Global News.

The velocity bumps were installed earlier this week arsenic portion of a aviator task that’s modelled aft nan cycling-calming measurement that was installed connected Wellington Street successful Verdun.

No motorized scooters are allowed and pedestrians person priority.

But immoderate group opportunity while nan velocity bumps are a bully initiative, designated motorcycle lanes pinch painted lines should person been added to debar imaginable collisions betwixt pedestrians and cyclists.

“Can we enactment connected our bike? Should we move connected nan broadside of our bikes? It’s not precisely clear,” Alex Emond, a cyclist, told Global News.

“As a pedestrian are we allowed to beryllium successful nan thoroughfare aliases is it chiefly for cyclists?” Lauren Jensen, a pedestrian visiting from California, told Global News.

But Giguère says a reserved lane for cyclists wouldn’t activity because Mont-Royal Avenue isn’t wide capable and she doubts neither cyclists nor pedestrians would respect nan lanes.

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“Obviously pedestrians would extremity up successful that motorcycle lane and cyclists would get retired of that motorcycle lane,” she said.

At slightest 1 business proprietor Global News said to supports nan velocity bumps, saying they will unit cyclists to perchance extremity and visit.

“Yeah, it helps,” Alejandro Velazquez, head astatine Twisted Burger, told Global News.