Montreal may take over painting of bike path lines
Cyclists criticize Rosemont–La Petite–Patrie borough for crooked lines across city
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre says the city may take over drawing lines after squiggly, uneven bike lanes from the work crews of Rosemont–La Petite–Patrie have been raising eyebrows across the city.
"Clearly it's wrong. It's unprofessional, it doesn't look good and they have to do a better job," Coderre said.
Cyclists have been complaining about linearly challenged bike paths in the Plateau, Ahuntsic and Rosemont–La Petite–Patrie neighbourhoods.
"I am asking the borough to take care of it or else I will do it myself," Coderre said.
Mayor says the city might take back responsibility of painting bike lane lines back from borough of Rosemont, following a botched paint job
—@CBCShaunRosemont plans to straighten things out
Rosemont–La Petite–Patrie officials issued a news release Friday, saying the paths will be re-painted in the following days — but only by the most experienced employees.
"The most experienced employees will be assigned to those streets that are more difficult to paint," the borough said.
"A reminder session about alignment techniques will also be conducted with the concerned personel."
In all, more than 90 blue-collar employees will be re-trained in painting straight lines.
At the same time, however, the borough is unsure how it will remove the existing, crooked lines. Borough staff are looking at various possibilities with experts.
With files from Jonathan Montpetit