Vélo Québec - How to get to Un Tour la Nuit by bike, metro or car?

How to get to Un Tour la Nuit
by bike, metro or car?

By bike? If you are coming by bike, here are a few recommended routes to the start site on boulevard Saint-Joseph, at the corner of rue Garnier.

From the north: Follow the av. Christophe-Colomb / rue Boyer bike path, then turn left onto rue Saint-Grégoire. Continue until you reach rue Garnier, then turn right.

From the west: Follow the rue Rachel bike path. Continue until you reach rue de Brébeuf, then turn left. Continue until you reach av. du Mont-Royal, then turn right. Continue until you reach rue Garnier, then turn left.

From the south: From rue Berri, follow the bike path along rue Cherrier and through parc La Fontaine / rue de Brébeuf. Continue until you reach av. du Mont-Royal, then turn right. Continue until you reach rue Garnier, then turn left.

From the east: Follow the rue Rachel bike path. Continue until you reach rue de Brébeuf, then turn right. Continue until you reach av. du Mont-Royal, then turn right. Continue until you reach rue Garnier, then turn left.

By metro?

The Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) will allow Un Tour la Nuit cyclists to access the metro as of 7 p.m. on Friday, June 1, to get to the event start site. Passengers with bicycles will have access to ten metro stations on the way to the event and to four on the way home. A total of 16 bicycles will be allowed on board the first car of each train. However, tandems, tricycles and trailers will be prohibited.

Here are the metro stations that you can access with your bicycle

In order to ensure compliance with the limit of 16 bicycles per train, no transfers will be permitted at the Snowdon, Jean-Talon, Lionel-Groulx and Berri-UQÀM stations, either on the way to the event or on the way home. STM employees will be on duty in the stations to point you in the right direction. Please give them your cooperation. Extra trains will be added. For more information about the metro map, consult the STM Web site: www.stm.info.

The STM would also like to inform cyclists that in the event of an emergency requiring the trains to be evacuated, bicycles must be left on board to provide for the safety of passengers. Also, even in the event of bad weather, the only four stations accessible to cyclists heading home will be those indicated above.

By car?

All of the parking spaces listed below are within two kilometres of the event finish site. Please consult the maps with the schedules of street closures to plan your route.

École Le Plateau
Free • Parking facilities open especially for the Tour la Nuit as of 6 p.m.

3700, av. Calixa-Lavallée (via rue Sherbrooke)

Note: the following parkings can not accommodate vehicles with bicycle roof racks.

UQÀM
Cost: $9 per evening

2020, rue Saint-Urbain • 1435, rue Sanguinet (between de Maisonneuve and Sainte-Catherine)

Complexe Desjardins
Cost: $10 per evening

Entrance 1: rue Jeanne-Mance (between Sainte-Catherine and René-Lévesque)

Entrance 2: rue Saint-Urbain (between Sainte-Catherine and René-Lévesque)

Cégep du Vieux Montréal
Cost: $12 per evening
255, rue Ontario Est (corner Sanguinet)

Grande Bibliothèque
Cost: $9 per evening
Entrance 1: rue Berri (between Ontario and De Maisonneuve)
Entrance 2: avenue Savoie (between Berri ans Saint-Denis

Parking on the street

You can also park your vehicle on the streets around the Tour la Nuit start site. But be sure watch the signs!