Don’t Walk Here

Pierrefonds Boulevard, not pedestrian-friendly

I decided to walk to work today. While this act may not seem revolutionary to many of my city-dwelling friends and colleagues, here in my neck of the woods, an outlying borough west of the City of Montreal, it is a highly unusual choice.

When I left home this morning and casually mentioned I’d be walking to work, my 14-year old son’s first reaction was incomprehension (actually more like “failure to compute”) and then disbelief, “But…. why?”

My place of work, the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough hall, is exactly 3.8km from my home, according to Google maps. So what’s the big deal?  Continue reading “Don’t Walk Here”