Leaf season is coming — how do locals handle the downtown crowds?

Run your errands midweek or early. Saturdays in October, downtown parking is a contact sport. The visitors are paying our bills though, so deep breath and wave folks across.

Back roads and the bypass save your sanity. And if you want to actually enjoy the railway or Mercier in October, go on a weekday.

Ha, noted. We'll get our Mercier fried pies on a Tuesday.