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Montreal columnist says he wasn't mocking us, but his own city officials

Andy Riga, who writes about transportation for the Montreal Gazette, writes today that what I (and other folks) took as umbrage at Boston was, in fact, umbrage as his own city's civic leaders.

Seems Montreal officialdom has to promote the fact that other cities have adopted their Bixi-style bike-sharing program in an effort to justify the tens of millions of dollars in subsidies the city has poured into the system. So when Riga noted that a front-page Globe story on our own Hubway ignored Montreal completely, he was sternly wagging his finger at le maire, not at us. And he swears he didn't really mean that crack about the Bruins. And he now knows why a Boston network might have "Hub" in its name.

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