August 6, 2023 - Montreal has announced that its Bixi bike-sharing service will be available this winter via a pilot project across seven boroughs reports CBC.
The service usually stops in November but there are still plenty of nice weather days to bike and people are disappointed. According to Bixi Montreal about 150 of the city’s 850 bike-sharing stations will be included in the pilot project. “We will manage issues related to snow but we have to remember that it only snows [heavily] about 10 days per year,” commented Alexandre Taillefer, who chairs the board of Bixi Montreal.
The pilot project will only include traditional bikes, not electric ones. The bikes will be equipped with studded tires to deal with slippery conditions.
BIXI officials project about 4,000 users a day in the winter months. The bike-sharing stations that will be part of the project will be located near Metro stations and close to the city’s large bike path network called the Réseau express vélo (REV).
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