Whose street is it anyway – A cordon count spatial study of Montreal’s Plateau-Mont-Royal borough

These seemingly technical questions actually raise the issue of how to share public space fairly between modes.

They raise questions like:

• How do people get around in my city today?

• Are my facilities and their associated layouts fair when compared to actual usage?

• Should cities be designed for the users we have today, or for those we’d like to have tomorrow?

On all these subjects, discussions can be challenging and involve multiple stakeholders: local residents, shopkeepers, associations, motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, etc.

But, there’s no better way to find the right answers than by using concrete, real-world data!

Here are a few thoughts on infrastructure sizing, with supporting data.