Dunlevy: My pre-jazz fest bike ride with Mayor Valérie Plante

I biked up Camillien-Houde Way for the first time, Wednesday morning. The occasion was a Montreal International Jazz Festival press conference in the presence of Mayor Valérie Plante.
It seemed fitting, therefore, to forgo the jazz fest press shuttle and make my own way to the lookout over downtown by cycling up the route that has become one of the defining issues of Plante’s first year in office.
Camillien-Houde was closed to through traffic at the beginning of June as part of a si