Empty stores, despite tons of free parking. Mmm, is lack of parking not the reason for disappearing businesses after all?

Cycling from Gracefield to Messines, Quebec: the paved railway track to the butcher

January 17, 2018 Hansonthebike 3

Reading Time: 5 minutes Nothing beats the winterblues than sunny summer pictures. After my last two posts on bike modal shares in Ottawa based on the Statscan census, we are going to take a look at a paved path near Gracefield in rural Quebec. This fall, we went out for a bike ride a bit further away from Ottawa at a place called Gracefield in Quebec. It required a considerable drive, about 100 km north of Ottawa. We used to visit a cottage at Lac Pemichangan at Thirty One Mile Lake, but since the owners passed away and the cottage was sold, we don’t [Read more…]