Your actual odds of being in a collision with a car as a cyclist is 2-7 in 100,000 trips per SPVM data so maybe we need to tone down the hyperbole here. But yeah, underserved areas need better cycling infrastructure. Why they don't have it isn't because of a change in administration but decades long systemic disinvestment in our most diverse and/or low income neighbourhoods and mainstream bike advocacy that centers Eurocentric, predominantly male, upper middle-class needs. During the Plante administration, men's cycling increased from 58 to 72% while women's cycling DECREASED from 48 to 44% per a Leger Marketing report prepared for Vélo Québec. The gap between the two is the highest it has been since 2000 (earliest year reported) where it was 5%.This is also the lowest rate of women cycling since 2010 despite most research indicating that safer cycling infrastructure increases women's cycling rates begging the question on how safe Plante era cycling infrastructure really is. Before laying this at the feet of a racialized woman, clean your own house because by and large women from the dominating culture (Valérie Plante, Marianne Giguère, Suzanne Lareau) are responsible for this. Something is clearly broken with mainstream cycling advocacy, urbanism, and white feminism when policies and practices are so clearly benefiting one group over another.

At least SMF faces enough pressure from Cycling Groups that she can't be as openly hostile to cycling infrastructure as she would like to be. The cagey language around REV Lacodaire is evidence to that. We also pressured her into creating real cycling infra on Parc which has claimed so many lives. With the expansion of Bixi into the West Island, political support for cycling in even the most Hitlarian of conscriptions is slowly moving towards a vision that leaves us all safer. Thanks for the article!

Pedestrians, cyclists and DRIVERS should be made to read an article. 🚴

Your actual odds of being in a collision with a car as a cyclist is 2-7 in 100,000 trips per SPVM data so maybe we need to tone down the hyperbole here. But yeah, underserved areas need better cycling infrastructure. Why they don't have it isn't because of a change in administration but decades long systemic disinvestment in our most diverse and/or low income neighbourhoods and mainstream bike advocacy that centers Eurocentric, predominantly male, upper middle-class needs. During the Plante administration, men's cycling increased from 58 to 72% while women's cycling DECREASED from 48 to 44% per a Leger Marketing report prepared for Vélo Québec. The gap between the two is the highest it has been since 2000 (earliest year reported) where it was 5%.This is also the lowest rate of women cycling since 2010 despite most research indicating that safer cycling infrastructure increases women's cycling rates begging the question on how safe Plante era cycling infrastructure really is. Before laying this at the feet of a racialized woman, clean your own house because by and large women from the dominating culture (Valérie Plante, Marianne Giguère, Suzanne Lareau) are responsible for this. Something is clearly broken with mainstream cycling advocacy, urbanism, and white feminism when policies and practices are so clearly benefiting one group over another.

At least SMF faces enough pressure from Cycling Groups that she can't be as openly hostile to cycling infrastructure as she would like to be. The cagey language around REV Lacodaire is evidence to that. We also pressured her into creating real cycling infra on Parc which has claimed so many lives. With the expansion of Bixi into the West Island, political support for cycling in even the most Hitlarian of conscriptions is slowly moving towards a vision that leaves us all safer. Thanks for the article!

Pedestrians, cyclists and DRIVERS should be made to read an article. 🚴