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Unfortunately I don't have any recommendations for you, but I just wanted to say that I recently visited Montreal for the eclipse and I found myself feeling really jealous of your bike infrastructure compared to what we have around me in the Philadelphia area. I'm not super well-traveled, so maybe Philly is just that far behind the curve that anything else looks impressive, but at least from my perspective you guys really seemed to have it figured out.
I had a great time up there, probably one of my favorite cities I've ever visited, I'm already looking for excuses to go back.
I used to live and bike in Philly on the bike share and it was pretty good back in 2015, have things just stalled out or something?
Yeah, sadly it doesn't feel like they've done a whole lot to expand things in the last decade.
The bike share is decent enough, but the situation with the actual bike lanes is pretty abysmal. Where the lanes even exist, you're lucky if you can make it a block or two at a time without them being blocked by a delivery truck, someone just straight-up parked there, or a dumpster or construction materials/equipment, and Philly traffic is scary enough in a car, let alone a bike.
Though to give credit where it's due, I do love some of the bike trails we have, the Schuylkill river trail, Fairmount park, the Perkiomen trail out in the suburbs, etc. all great to enjoy a rid, but not necessarily to get from point a to point b.