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The plan — voted by a majority of councillors at the June meeting of the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough — calls for bicycle paths to be added to: Isabella Ave., across the highly congested Décarie expressway service road; Upper Lachine Rd. between Grand Blvd. and Décarie Blvd., and on Jean-Brillant St. between Decelles Ave. and Édouard-Montpetit Blvd.

It also calls for improvements to be made on two existing bike lanes — on Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Ave. and Grand Blvd. Those would become protected bicycle paths along the sidewalk, with a physical separation from cars. In the case of Grand Blvd., the path would be extended by a block to Côte-St-Luc Rd.

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The council voted last month to ask the city for permission to study and implement the plan, and for it to be added to the 2020 citywide plan for bicycle infrastructure.

However, the plan goes “too far, too quickly,” said Snowdon-district councillor Marvin Rotrand, who voted against it, as according to him, it shows that the current Projet Montréal administration in the borough is willing to create havoc on the roads in order to appease a tiny percentage of the population that will actually be using the infrastructure.