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While it’s perhaps not as zealous as the apparent “war on cars” by Montreal Mayor Valèrie Plante’s administration downtown, residents in Dorval and Pointe-Claire are coping with their own fallout from reduced car-lane widths on some collector roads after the installation of bidirectional bicycle paths.

In Dorval, a section of car lanes along Cardinal Ave., which links Sources Blvd. to Trudeau international airport, were narrowed to accommodate the installation of a separated bike path on the train-track side last year. Some motorists started to use residential streets to the north to reach Sources Blvd. in a bid to avoid jams on Cardinal Ave. This prompted the city to install signs prohibiting drivers from turning right onto such side streets as Thorncrest and Westwood, weekdays from 4 to 6 p.m. The bike path was a Montreal agglomeration project.

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Some unhappy residents launched an online petition this week demanding the city remove or resize the Cardinal Ave. bike path “to make appropriate room for traffic that needs access to this main artery.” The petition notes the bike path is “too large for the road, making the driving conditions, particularly at rush hour, treacherous for the Dorval North community.”