Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Montreal

Montreal’s New Mayor Orders Up a Big Increase in Bus Service

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 15, 2018 | 5 Comments

The city will increase the size of its bus fleet 16 percent, part of a plan to add service on existing routes, expand service to new routes, and prioritize buses with dedicated lanes.

Plante upset the political establishment in Montreal with a platform that emphasized transit, biking, and walking. Photo: Andre Querry/Wikimedia Commons

In Montreal, an Electrifying Win for a Long-Shot Who Campaigned on Better Transit and Cycling

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 9, 2017 | 13 Comments

Valérie Plante, a political outsider, campaigned on more frequent buses and better bike lanes.

Montreal's Rue Ontario at Place Simon-Valois, free of cars. Photo: City of Montreal

Montreal’s Car-Free Street Network Gets Bigger All the Time

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 23, 2017 | 4 Comments

Every year, Montreal transforms more of its streets into public spaces where people can rub shoulders with their neighbors without worrying about car traffic. Block by block, experiment by experiment, the city's pedestrian streets are growing.

In Montreal, bus passengers who boarded through the back or middle door perceived their journey as shorter. Graph: McGill University

All-Door Boarding Can Save Time for Bus Riders — If Transit Agencies Embrace It

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 4, 2017 | 7 Comments

All-door boarding can speed up heavily-used bus routes and improve customer satisfaction. But transit agencies have to fully commit to the new policy to realize the benefits.

Parking Madness: Federal Way vs. Montreal

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 21, 2016 | 24 Comments

We’re just getting started with Parking Madness 2016 — our annual hunt for North America’s worst parking craters. So far, Washington, D.C., and Rutland, Vermont, have advanced to the second round. Today’s matchup pits the Seattle suburb of Federal Way against the pride of Quebec — Montreal. It’s the second Canadian parking crater in this year’s competition, reminding us that the United […]

Experience Montreal’s Car-free Rue St. Catherine & Bustling Bike Rush Hour

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 26, 2013

While spending a week in Montreal, my wife and I stayed right along the Rue Sainte Catherine, which we discovered is closed to motor vehicles from May 15 through September 6 in two main sections. The first, a mile-long stretch that’s been car-free in the summer since 2008, has a lot of restaurants and is […]

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