Right you are- it's not all of Québec. The restriction is for Île de Montréal, which is slightly different from Montréal, and also applies to bicyclists there. That seems wrong-headed to me. It has little actual impact- from what I saw in my trip a month ago, bicyclists there are in the practice of... acting in accordance with their own judgments of risk. Oddly, they seem perfectly happy to ride in the door zone, which calls that judgment into question. We have a word for people who do that in Vancouver: quadriplegics.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott Rose wrote: > >> Quebec doesn't have it, and drivers have survived to drive another > > day. > > I replied: > > > That used to be true, but hasn't been for about a > > decade. Exception: I don't think it is the default in > > Montréal or may even still be prohibited completely. > > I looked it up. My guess of about a decade turned out to be just about > right on, off by five months ;-) (Turns on red are prohibited in Montréal, > but legal elsewhere.) The "new" law went into effect 13 April 2003, > following a one year pilot in 2001. Here is a July 2004 report on it: > > http://www.mtq.gouv.qc.ca/portal/page/portal/Librairie/Publications/fr/reseau_routier/signalisation/virage/rapport_final.pdf > > Not surprisingly, the law also made it legal for bicyclists to turn right > on red, previously prohibited. > > > -- Scott M. Rose West Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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