Adapt or die

In Canada, the complaint most commonly lobbed against cycling is that it is a summertime activity and Canada is a country with six months of winter though this hardly applies to the southern portion where 90% of the population resides.

Still, when you compare the effort and money expended in urban areas like Montreal to allow motorized vehicles to park and circulate along its thousands of streets, can it really be deemed the best suited means of transportation to the conditions?

What would a true Reseau Blanc cost the city to maintain in contrast to the tens of millions of dollars spent to try to fit a square peg into a round hole each winter?