Residents of Dollard-des-Ormeaux will quickly be capable to hop on a BIXI Montreal bike nearer to dwelling. The bike-sharing program confirmed it’s going to roll out service within the West Island metropolis this summer season, making it the primary municipality within the space to get Bixi.
About 60 bikes, 30 electrical and 30 common, might be put in at seven stations throughout the centre and japanese components of town. The community enlargement is anticipated to be prepared for residents by summer season 2026.
Eftyhia Volakakis, a spokesperson for Mayor Alex Bottausci, informed CityNews in a press release:
“Council may be very excited so as to add 7 stations of 60 Bixi bikes in complete within the Middle and East a part of it’s territory. From the 60 bikes, 30 are electrical and 30 are handbook. The set up of the stations might be finalized and prepared for residents to make use of in the summertime of 2026. These stations had been strategically positioned to facilitate entry to the REM for our residents.”
Bixi at the moment operates throughout all boroughs of Montreal and a number of other close by municipalities, together with Laval, Longueuil and Boucherville.
Whereas the brand new stations are partly geared toward serving to residents connect with the Réseau specific métropolitain, riders could have to attend till no less than 2027 earlier than Bixi stations seem on the Fairview–Pointe-Claire REM Station and Des Sources REM Station on the longer term Anse-à-l’Orme department.
Regional officers are additionally learning a proposed biking hall alongside the REM route that will join bike paths to stations throughout the community, although that mission remains to be years away.