The nightmare of every Montreal cyclist finally came true for Cole Shields this month: someone stole her beloved bike.
One morning, she locked it against the staircase railing of her Hochelaga-Maisonneuve home across from Lalancette park. By the time she got home in the late afternoon, it was gone.
Her east-end borough isn’t the safest for bikes, with an average of slightly over 100 bikes a year getting nicked, but it’s far from the worst.
In sheer numbers, over the past four and a half years, more bikes were reported stolen in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough than in any other borough, according to data from the
