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Bartek Komorowski

@bicyclebartek.bsky.social
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I’m here to talk shop about bike lanes, street design, and urban mobility in Montreal and beyond.

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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Nouvelle publication sur le site web de mon équipe : Trottoir et piste cyclable tranversants montreal-amenagement-rues.powerappsportals.com/Composantes/...
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
J'ai présenté notre projet d'évaluation de l'intersection Bellechasse/Christophe-Colomb au colloque de l'AQTr il y a deux semaines. @francoisjoly.bsky.social était là et, sur la base de son reportage au 15-18, je constate qu'il a écouté très attentivement ! ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
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François Joly : Les intersections protégées au banc d'essai à Montréal | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Le 15-18 : François Joly : Les intersections protégées au banc d'essai à Montréal
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Last September, I participated in a webinar on island platform bus stops - ie, bus stops along protected bike lanes. The host @itecanada.bsky.social has made a recording of the webinar available here: www.itecanada.org/webinar-isla...
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[WEBINAR] Island Platform Bus Stops: Emerging Trends, Technologies & Lessons Learned - ITE Canada
The design of island platform bus stops has continued to evolve across Canada and internationally as practitioners advance their understanding of accessibility needs within a North American context, w...
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Jean-François Rheault @jfrheault.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Non seulement c’est possible de bien déneiger le nouvel aménagement cyclable à l’intersection Christophe-Colomb / Bellechasse, mais regardez à quel point c’est bien pour les piétons : ils n’ont pas à traverser un lac ou un montage de slush.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The Christophe-Colomb and Bellechasse protected intersection under the snow (📷 @velo.qc.ca). There was much handwringing about this being "impossible" to clear of snow. My team will be talking to maintenance crews to see how it's going and what we could improve in future protected intersections.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The east of the avenue Christophe-Christophe reconstruction between Jean-Talon and Jarry is complete. It features wide, raised cycle tracks and advanced stormwater management features that will make the street more “spongy”.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Montreal’s BIXI #bikeshare system is introducing cargo trailers! bixi.com/en/trailer?u...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians. Vehicles with especially tall front ends are most dangerous to pedestrians, but a blunt profile makes medium-height vehicles deadly too.” Deadly by design. And they know it. www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
Graphic showing how vehicle front design affects pedestrian deaths.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Newly released data shows that the bicycle mode share of people residing in the central part of the Montreal region doubled from 4% in 2018 to 8% 2023 (all trips purposes, 24h on weekdays).
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Montreal has website/app (infoneige.ca/index-en.php) that allows residents to monitor progress of snow removal ops in real time. The purpose is to warn residents to remove parked cars before the operation starts. It’s best to remove parked bikes as well so that don’t get dinged by the machines.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
After a record 74 cm snow dump, #wintercycling is on hold for a few days. Sidewalks, bike lanes, and local streets are buried in so much snow that plowing is ineffective or simply impossible. While snow removal operations progress slowly, we’ve been getting around on x-country skis instead.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Traffic signs in Quebec are only loosely based on the MUTCD. Pictograms are preferred over to text to allow speakers of any language to understand. On this windy Monday, a colleague reminded me of traffic sign D-61-1 "Squall", Quebec's finest! Oddly, I am reminded of a certain other blowhard...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
mainstream narrative.
Microphone meme with "1.35M annual worldwide traffic deaths" without attention and "cyclists rolling through a stop sign" with dozens of microphones"
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 29/12/2024
"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created...a triangle-framed bike can easily carry 10x its own weight—capacity no automobile, airplane or bridge can match.” —Bill Strickland.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A shared street is essentially a pedestrian street that cars are allowed to use. The street must be designed to make motorists feel like they are invading the pedestrian realm. Any visual distinction between roadway and sidewalk must be avoided. Video: de la Gauchetière Est in Montreal.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Taking the whole lane ✔️ Distracted (singing) ✔️ No helmets ✔️ No lights ✔️ No reflective vests ✔️ Riding in a pack ✔️ The textbook radical anti-car cyclists our culture despises
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
English version of the document here: designmontreal.com/s3fs-public/...
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Montreal's summertime street pedestrianizations and other tactical street retrofits have been successful in part due to careful layout and design. The City's Design Bureau has drawn on these experiences to compile this great guide for temporary on-street spaces. designmontreal.com/s3fs-public/...
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This excellent @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video about Laval, Montreal’s neighbour to the north, shows how a car-oriented suburb can rapidly expand and improve cycling infrastructure to create a workable network. Laval might be a more salient example for many North American communities than Montreal.
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Does Biking in the Suburbs Have to Suck?
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Last winter, Montreal's BIXI #bikeshare system stayed open for the first time. Though only 1 in 8 stations remained open from mid-November to April, 93,000 people used the system to make about 1-million trips. 65% of them were #wintercycling for the first time. 81% said they'll do it again.
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Le facteur humain | Difficile à apprivoiser, le vélo d’hiver ?
« J’adore faire du vélo l’été, mais l’hiver, j’ai peur de glisser, d’abîmer mon vélo, d’avoir froid… Auriez-vous des conseils pour bien débuter ? », demande Laurence.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Good news. Because I have a picture of a street with no cars in it, we don’t need streets for cars. I know that because of all the helpful people who have told me over the years that because they have a picture of a bike-lane with no bikes in it, we don’t need bike-lanes. Sounds reasonable, right?
Multi-lane road in a city with no cars in it
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Yesterday I biked: - from home in Villeray to the office in Old Montreal (7.1 km) - from the office to a work party in the Olympic Park (8.6 km) - from the Olympic Park back home (8.1 km) 100% of my journey was on separated, winter-maintained infrastructure. We have come a long way, my friends.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🎯 www.revuegestion.ca/electrificat...
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Électrification des transports : attention, danger!
Présentée comme la pierre angulaire de la décarbonation de l’économique québécoise, cette stratégie comporte plusieurs écueils majeurs et masque la nécessité de réduire et transformer la mobilité.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Build it and they will come. Plow it and they will come in the winter.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
First significant snowfall in Montreal. Maintenance operations on the cycling network completed overnight. Smooth sailing for people heading to work and school on their bikes this morning. #véloMTL
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Karel Mayrand @karelmayrand.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Les pistes cyclables n'occupent que 1% de la voie publique à Montréal, contre 75% pour l'automobile. Elles ne reçoivent que 7% du financement routier à Montréal. Il y a 1,1 million de cyclistes à Montréal et... 983 000 automobilistes. Mon texte dans @lactualite.com : lactualite.com/societe/pist...
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Pistes cyclables : remettons les pendules à l’heure
Les voies cyclables réduisent la congestion, diminuent les dépenses publiques et stimulent le commerce local.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“Motonormativity” or “car brain” - cultural inability to think objectively and dispassionately about how we use cars. www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23...
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Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving
We tend to turn a blind eye to the social ills of driving.
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If you want fast response of emergency services - build wide bike lanes…
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
BREAKING: “Removing bike -lanes from busy city streets will increase traffic congestion, according to a government document leaked amid a furious row over urban infrastructure. The findings undercut claims that the dedicated routes contribute to urban gridlock.” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Removing Toronto bike lanes will make traffic worse, official document shows
In preparation for plan, Ontario has indemnified itself from liability if cyclists are killed on streets that once had bike lanes
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The Toronto “bikelash” is negligible in Toronto itself, where city council voted 21-4 in favor of keeping its bike lanes. It’s due to angry suburbanites who want to overrule city residents’ transportation decisions. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Bikes v cars: backlash after Ontario premier threatens to tear up cycling lanes in Toronto
Doug Ford plans to rip out bike lanes on busy streets, citing ‘insanity’ of gridlock he says they contribute to
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Truly shocking. A government knowingly legislating to make streets more dangerous. This is not just backwards, it’s evil.
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Shannon @storiteller.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
About 20 years ago, I was in a grad school class where we had a discussion with a Parisian city planner. Bikeshare in Paris had just launched. He said, "Parisians will never give up their cars." When I start getting frustrated about progress, I think of that conversation.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Ce que je reproche le plus à ce chroniqueur est qu’il confond le concept d’une consultation avec celui d’un référendum. Une consultation devrait servir à améliorer l’acceptabilité sociale d’un projet, pas a decider si on va de l’avant avec le projet. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
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Plaza Saint-Hubert | Un gros non à la piétonnisation
La mythique Plaza Saint-Hubert a été l’objet de deux expériences assez fascinantes ces derniers mois.
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"The mark of a great city isn't how it treats its special places, but how it treats its ordinary ones" - Aaron Renn
Swings hanging under a highway overpass, with children swinging on them.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Surprise! The Chateaubriand bidirectional has been extended north of Bélanger. #veloMTL
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
It’s also interesting how people talk about how “you can't bike through two feet of snow”, not realizing that cars can’t do that either, completely taking for granted the fact that roads are plowed in order to make car traffic possible.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Recently released initial results from the Montreal region's 2023 origin-destination study show that, compared to 2018, the number of morning peak trips taken by car and by public transit have dropped by 10% and 25% respectively. However, the number of trips taken by active modes increased by 28%.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Why talk so much about bike infrastructure? Simple: we use it every day and it makes our lives better. If our city didn’t have it, our lives would be worse. We’d either spend more money or have less mobility. We’d be less active and healthy. More people should be this lucky. (Av. Bourbonnière)
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
In 2008, a year before the BIXI #bikeshare system was implemented, an average of 40,000 bicycle trips were taken daily in Montreal according to the regional origin-destination survey. Yesterday, on a cool day in mid-November (high 9°C), almost 40,000 trips were taken just on the bike share system.
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“This is a bicycle. It makes you happier.”
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Bartek Komorowski @bicyclebartek.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello friends, it’s been a while. I’ve been hard at work with my team, helping out with different street redesigns around town and creating guidelines for us and our partners in Montreal’s 19 boroughs. See what we have come up with so far here: montreal-amenagement-rues.powerappsportals.com
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