Transit Use 2025

The transit tracking tradition continues. Again this year, we biked a lot so took transit much less, and I biked the most I ever have with 65 rides in 2025. I counted “unofficial” transfers on the STM as two rides. My rides were paid for using: OPUS (74), Mexico City card (3) and one each for Presto and the Transit App.

I took transit two days for work in 2025, and I biked to a client office twice. We took two trips to Mexico City and rode the metro a couple times. On my next trip, I will use it more to get further afield for walks. We went to Calgary and rode the bus once to try out buying a ticket using Transit App. In Montreal, there were several transit strikes this year that just meant we rode our bikes farther than we otherwise would have instead of taking transit.

Year over year

Weekday riding stayed low, since I walk to work. Friday rides are for Friday Adventure after daycare pick up.

My transit use in Montreal got up to 90% of my pre-pandemic riding when I was going to the airport for work often and walking the rest of the time. Biking on my cargo bike picked up most of the summer transit trips and all of September. The only ride I took in September was in Calgary.

2025 Bike Ride 65

A Costco trip in the cold with plenty of snow and impassable bike paths. I spent some time exploring where the snow was cleared, but ended up on the city streets rather than the Parks Canada path because Parks doesn’t clear their bike path.

Total trip distance: 4.18 km

Moving time: 0h24m

2025 Bike Ride 64

Just a Costco trip in the cold, but the roads/paths were pretty dry.

Total trip distance: 3.82 km

Moving time: 0h18m

2025 Bike Ride 63

A Sunday ride to a swimming class that was not actually scheduled, to a pop-up market where the person selling the thing I went for hadn’t arrived yet, and to Costco where at least we got to eat a hot dog. It was a chilly ride.

Total trip distance: 11.53 km

Moving time: 0h45m

2025 Bike Ride 62

Saturday flamenco trip with a stop at a Par Amour patisserie-café for a delicious cookie, then a music lesson. Lastly, we stopped at Messorem for lunch and the first round of smoothie fight 2026. I rode on a few new streets over near Monk.

This was the first ride with my new winter studded tires. It was another cool day with damp paths without ice most places, so good for running in the tires.

Total trip distance: 14.64 km

Moving time: 0h55m

2025 Bike Ride 61

A Saturday ride to flamenco and Costco. It was a bit cool but the paths were still clear of ice.

Total trip distance: 9.64 km

Moving time: 0h43m

2025 Bike Ride 60

Another transit strike day with “rush hour” service. We had a show to see at L’Illusion on St-Denis called “Les petites géométries”. It was a great show and Fernanda loved it. However, it was at 3pm, so transit couldn’t get us there in time but could take us home. I rode with Fernanda on my boke up there. Thankfully, she was able to take the metro home with Doris because it had really started to snow while we were in the show and the ride home was slippery. It took me nearly as long to get down from the Plateau alone as it had to ride up there with a child on my bike.

Total trip distance: 14.87 km

Moving time: 1h15m