Oh, "how does it work"? They charge you $7 on your credit card. Then you get the bike for 30 minutes. If you return the bike after 30 minutes, they charge you an extra $5. For the 24 hours after the first trip, you can sign out a bike as many times as you like with the same card with no extra charge. They say "$7 = 24 hours" but you can't use the bike for longer than 30 minutes at a time. Bikes are in OK shape. I use them all the time, but Mile End is lousy with Bixi stations.
― ship who you wanna ship (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 22 August 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
There's also a 72 hrs for $14 deal.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
It's like a Boris Bike right?
The Boris Bikes are built by the same Montreal people who made Bixi! So... yes!
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Thursday, 22 August 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
What about ile des soeurs? Is that too remote for walking/biking?
Nun's Island in english... I'd avoid it personally. Its kinda isolated from the city, and dull.
― sofatruck, Thursday, 22 August 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
Are these actually good?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cek6rK5F4EA
― brio, Thursday, 22 August 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Nun's Island is a big no if you don't have car. If you are walking and biking, you will have way more fun at the mount royal, lachine canal, and even parc lafontaine.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
lol don't go to nuns island
― flopson, Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
anyone been to blue lotus in verdun? everyone talking about it lately, supposed to be crazy good chinese food super cheap
― flopson, Thursday, 22 August 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Thursday, August 22, 2013 9:24 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
don tdo
adam try and get a room at casa bianca
casabianca.ca
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 23 August 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
I have a suspicious feeling Île Ste-Hélène and Île des Sœurs/Nuns' Island have a kind of Greenland/Iceland thing going on. Someone overhears "hey there's a park on an island and you can ride bikes and do stuff etc. etc." and then they look at a map and go "oh, it must be Nuns' Island. Let's go." It was like when the vikings named Greenland to misdirect potential pillagers and invaders to a frozen wasteland.
I bet there's a tons of people who have shown up on Nuns' Island with picnic basket full of baguettes, hummus purchased at the quatre frères, white wine, Ray-Bans, an acoustic guitar, and marijuana... Ready for the party guys! HAHAHAHAAH. Condos.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 23 August 2013 04:50 (ten years ago) link
My uncle and aunt from France visited Montreal this summer and they actually went to Nun's Island. I don't know why. They found it was beautiful, shed a tear and decided to become canadians. The mysteries of immigration.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 23 August 2013 05:25 (ten years ago) link
Haha ok no nuns island for us!
I have booked two AirBnBs only to be rejected. I have great reviews! Is it my face? Would it help to explain that I'm not American?
I will look at this casa, socki
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
No casa =(
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/700477?locale=en
^^^ great location, cute looking
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 23 August 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
googling for "gite" might help
I want that.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 23 August 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
Ok wait, when are you coming to Montreal, admrl? if we don't hang out this time we should def hang out another time, prob where there is beer.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
mile end is so great with the streetlights out. so dramatic. it's a thing they should just do on these summer nights, for ambiance. I had such a nice evening walking to olimpico, the sky this deep violet, ambient social activity audible more than visible.
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 29 August 2013 01:33 (ten years ago) link
ps I would love to hang with Adam but can we just establish whether or not on this trip it is going to be a candle-lit lady-&-the-tramp spaghetti-sharing wedding anniversary scene, on which several ilxors are impinging, or whether there is an actual social window
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 29 August 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
i love mile-end skies on late summer evenings, seriously one of my favourite things in the world
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 August 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
walk along saint-laurent as if taking a dilapidated backroad into heaven
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 29 August 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
I'm available to start a band called The Sky This Deep Violet if you want. Must have own gear.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 29 August 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Oh hai
Well this is kind of a Lady and a Tramp thing, in more ways than one! I don't know if I will have a chance to hang out this time, but seeing as it is like a 4-hour drive, I doubt this will be the only time I find myself in Mtl.
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Thursday, 29 August 2013 19:03 (ten years ago) link
Looks like I will not get to ride a Bixi, this time :(
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Monday, 2 September 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
my good friend is off on his motorcycle trip heading toward the northeastern US. he has threatened to go to montreal. you've been warned!
― space is deep (mh), Monday, 2 September 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
Ok!
― Chantal Anchorman (admrl), Monday, 2 September 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
these lilac clouds
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
caught on a pole like a kite in a tree near my apartment,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTWvmmdIUAANee3.jpg
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 5 September 2013 00:07 (ten years ago) link
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BTWvmmdIUAANee3.jpg
montreal thread: I don't know if this is just a sad & transparent manifestation of the ebbing of summer, the greying skies, &c, but I want to swim in a river while the water is still habitable. can you do that here? have you done it? to take a train & swim near a bridge?
― szarkasm (schlump), Saturday, 7 September 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
You have the beach at Cap Saint Jacques, it's a beautiful place. Heard about a beach in Île Bizard but never been there.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 7 September 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUeG86kCcAAPPKu.jpg
this always just reminds me of mulholland drive
― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Friday, 20 September 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Hi Montreal. Your airport can eat two dicks (and Tim Hortons 1.5).
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Sunday, 22 September 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
heh
― flopson, Sunday, 22 September 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Trudeau still feels like an upgrade to us who've been through Mirabel for all those years.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 22 September 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
After 15 years of YYZ it feels cozy and comforting
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 22 September 2013 20:26 (ten years ago) link
now that's a long drum solo
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 September 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
I had no beef with the infrastructure btw, but with customs being redirected into two queues, one of which was served by five counters, the other by one (1); and me thus missing my connecting flight.
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
so: im gonna be in montreal from dec 6th - 10th. anything particularly cool going on then?
― Lamp, Thursday, 26 September 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
picturesque rather than life threatening ~weather~ iirc& probably, i think montreal winter is pretty well catered for & enjoyable if it is just a momentary window in your otherwise sensibly climated life
― schlump, Thursday, 26 September 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
varning (2-day hardcore punk fest) is that weekend lol
― flopson, Thursday, 26 September 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
really appreciating this ambient chemtrails awareness campaign
― schlump, Sunday, 13 October 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I can think of about a half dozen people who might be responsible.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm getting worried by the number of condos being built around downtown and griffintown, for all kinds of reasons (urban, economic).
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
condo towers, i mean.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
i'm stoked for this one though https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/901941_468243749956328_13436519_o.jpg
― flopson, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:56 (ten years ago) link
mtl doesn't have enough whatever that type of architecture is called imo
― flopson, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
i remember going to vancouver & being wowed at a lot of individually ugly new apartment buildings looking really great clustered together with the backdrop of hills, i feel like having that kinda thing en masse is to some degree a prereq for it looking effective
― schlump, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:18 (ten years ago) link
Agreed, outside looking in Vancouver is somewhat nice. However, once you are inside those streets and the only thing around is ugly condo towers with deserted balconies, bleh.
This is not what Montreal is about, at all.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
Plus, they have a hard time selling those type of real estate in Toronto, I wonder how it fares in Montreal where you have plenty of cool appartments and houses in great neighborhood for insanely low prices.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link