{"id":2055,"date":"2010-08-11T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:16:41","slug":"qu%e2%80%99est-que-c%e2%80%99est-bixi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/08\/qu%e2%80%99est-que-c%e2%80%99est-bixi\/","title":{"rendered":"Qu\u2019est que c\u2019est Bixi?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bix<\/a>\u00a0is Montreal\u2019s homegrown rental bike system. Designed to serve tourists and residents with more than 5,000 bikes distributed through the city, the program is a real commitment to urban biking. Price and convenience contribute to their use and the system is well-managed to local habits\u2014bikes are trucked around the city to ensure their even distribution after rush hour trips downtown.<\/p>\n

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Tourists can rent a bike for $5.00, residents can rent for a whole year for $78<\/p><\/div>\n

But I think the real reason people bike in Montreal is the 502 kilometers of bike lanes and bike routes. Some are painted on the street, some run through parks, and some are separated by curbs, but all are well-respected and well-used.<\/p>\n

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concrete lane markers and no parking make this clearly a bike space<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, even in the winter, though not without challenges.\u00a0The commitment to bike infrastructure has created a bike culture that reaches not only across the city, but across the country.<\/p>\n

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Riders through Montreal can connect to a countrywide bike route or just ride down the hill to work. Coffee, croissants, and air pumps are avialable all along the routes<\/p><\/div>\n

And, Bixi is coming to Washington DC <\/a>and Arlington,VA\u00a0 this fall.<\/p>\n

What are the Bixi opportunities in Montgomery County? I can easily see bike stations located at Metro stations and at park\/trail points like the Capital Crescent Trail, but once you get the bike, where do you go? Does anyone really want to bike up Wisconsin Avenue in its current cross-section?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to map the bike routes, another to ride them. As Casey Anderson pointed out in his Rethink presentation, potential riders are afraid of car traffic, but even those who would never consider riding a bike think it\u2019s worthwhile to invest in bike and pedestrian infrastructure. Bixi in the DC region may be a first step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bix\u00a0is Montreal\u2019s homegrown rental bike system. Designed to serve tourists and residents with more than 5,000 bikes distributed through the city, the program is a real commitment to urban biking. Price and convenience contribute to their use and the system is well-managed to local habits\u2014bikes are trucked around the city to ensure their even distribution after rush hour trips downtown.<\/p>\n

But I think the real reason people bike in Montreal is the 502 kilometers of bike lanes and bike routes. Some are painted on the street, some run through parks, and some are separated by curbs, but all are well-respected and well-used.<\/p>\n

Yes, even in the winter, though not without challenges.\u00a0The commitment to bike infrastructure has created a bike … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[179,178,180],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-planning","tag-bike-culture","tag-bike-routes","tag-bixi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11210,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions\/11210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}