WATCH ABOVE: Montreal police were out in the Plateau Tuesday to conduct a road safety operation to encourage cyclists to use the bike paths and follow road rules. Global’s Elysia Bryan-Baynes reports.
MONTREAL – Cyclists in the Plateau should take some extra precautions Tuesday – or face a possible fine from Montreal police.
Police were on the corner of Berri and Cherrier streets conducting a road safety operation from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Their aim is to encourage cyclists to use the bike paths and lanes throughout the Plateau as part of the city’s “100 per cent vigilant” campaign.
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The operation is mostly educational, but a police press release also noted officers would be issuing tickets for any rule-breaking cyclists – that means anyone who doesn’t stop at stop signs and red lights or who has headphones in.
Police were also supposed to have an operation on nearby Saint-Denis Street between Sherbrooke and Rachel streets to draw drivers’ attention to “dooring” – when a car door is opened suddenly, hitting a cyclist.
Dooring, even if accidental, can result a fine.
It was cancelled because of the rain.
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