Tuesday, September 07, 2010  Of McGill-only interest: Bicycles
Over the summer, bicycling was forbidden on McGill's central
campus. I wrote a letter of objection, mainly reproduced below,
and was assured that ongoing discussions about possible
revisions were possible in the fall.  The decision to begin the
school year with a lengthy article in the official McGill
Reporter quoting at length from an administration official
dismissing all objections annoys me and seems not to signal an
interest in ongoing conversation. Significantly, there's no
mention of the fact that McGill is built on the southern face of
a mountain which has a real effect on how useful it is to tell
people to bike around campus in an east-west direction rather
than through it. So I hereby make my letter an open one.   I am
writing to urge that bicycle-riding be allowed on parts of the
lower downtown campus. I recommend that one bicycle lane be
opened between the University Ave. gate and tghe bicycle racks
at Leacock; one between the Univers