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7 Surprising Montreal Spots To Explore This Summer On Tangerine's BIXI e-Bikes

Summer in Montreal is truly a special time when the streets come alive with bustling festivals, cafés and bars. When the weather is on your side, nothing's stopping you from exploring Montreal from tip to tip.

BIXI e-bikes are a simple and sustainable way to navigate the city and see it for the wondrous place it is. Not to mention, you can get to your destination faster (and much less sweaty).

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A Montreal Artist Created A Massive Sculpture Out Of Recycled BIXI Bikes Downtown (PHOTOS)

Montreal's famous MURAL Festival is well underway across the city, and loads of popular art installations have been popping up left and right. MURAL organizers have unveiled a number of eyebrow-raising festival highlights, including a huge fresco painting by artist Saype on a grassy bit of land at the northeast corner of Mount Royal Park.

The "Beyond Walls" art piece depicts two interlocking human arms, which will only be visible at the park for a "few days." MURAL said Saype's work "stems from a desire to share a positive message of solidarity and collective effort around the world by symbolically creating the largest human chain ever realized."

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7 Of Montreal's Best Off-The-Beaten-Path Bike Routes

Imagine your next bike ride through breathtaking scenery — a gentle breeze blowing through your hair and the fresh scent of nature filling your lungs. You don't have to look far to experience that in Montreal. There are tons of lesser-known cycling routes across the island, away from busy streets and downtown crowds.

Plus, with Bixi bikes now available year-round, you have ample time to explore these picturesque routes and discover some of the best-kept secrets of the city's cycling scene:

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4 Things Montreal Cyclists Should Know Before Hitting The Road This Spring

With the arrival of spring, biking season in Montreal is kicking into high gear, which means there's no better time to brush up on available paths and other resources at your disposal.

From discovering new routes and keeping your bike safe to getting off-island on two wheels, here are some things for seasoned cyclists and BIXI hobbyists to keep in mind:

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BIXI Prices Are Going Up This Year

Montrealers will pay a little more to use the city's popular bike-sharing service this year. BIXI Montreal prices are going up in 2023. The Montreal Executive Committee approved the hikes during its February 22 meeting. Despite the increases, seasonal BIXI pass subscribers will still benefit from a pre-season deal.

Those who sign up for a season-long subscription between March 15 and April 15, inclusive, will pay $89 before tax. That's $6 more than the 2022 pre-season price, but $10 less than the price of a season pass after April 15 this year, $99 before tax. Regular season passes were $92 in 2022.

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Montreal Night Bike Ride Tour La Nuit Will See Thousands Of Cyclists Take To The Streets

If you've dreamt of hitting the road on your bike and not having to worry about beeping cars or pedestrians, then Tour La Nuit may be the event for you. On June 3, Montreal's annual nighttime bike ride sweeps through 22 kilometres of the city, taking participants on a tour of four boroughs and right by the Olympic Stadium.

Riders can deck out in costumes and light-up gear. Electric bikes, unicycles, and tandem rides are all allowed. If you don't have a bike, you can always snag a BIXI, which is offering a special deal to participate. However, scooters are out. Rollerblading or jogging is also prohibited.

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Montreal BIXI Bikes Have Been Decorated By MURAL Festival Street Artists (FIRST LOOK)

Forget the usual silver-and-red BIXIs this summer and try to find one of the dozens of eye-catching custom bikes decorated by MURAL Festival street artists that are hitting stations across the city on June 9! Artists Mono Sourcil, Chien Champion, La Charbonne, Aless MC and Zephyr have transformed 45 bicycles into vibrant, rideable works of art. The BIXI and MURAL collaboration comes as the bike-share service celebrates 50 million trips in Montreal and the street art festival marks its 10th edition.

"Using the bikes like canvasses was a natural extension of the festival, which aims to make art more accessible in the city," MURAL Festival General Manager Pierre-Alain Benoit told MTL Blog.

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2 Montreal City Councillors Want To Bring Back Self-Service Electric Scooters

Two Montreal city councillors are calling on BIXI to bring self-service electric scooters back to the city by 2023. Alba Stella Zúñiga Ramos of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and Stéphanie Valenzuela of Côte-Des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce made a joint statement outside of City Hall on Tuesday saying the popularity of e-scooters has gone up and more than half of Montrealers want to see a return of the motorized mode of transportation.

It has been just under three years since a failed 2019 pilot project saw rentable scooters booted from the city. Within weeks of the scooters being introduced en masse by the two companies, Bird and Lime, many were destroyed and dumped around town. One was even launched into the Lachine Canal.

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BIXI Officially Launches Wednesday With 31 New Stations

BIXI, Montreal's popular bike-sharing program, is officially launching its 2022 season on April 13, two days ahead of schedule. As of 10 a.m. Wednesday, Montrealers will once again be able to take to the city's bike paths with a BIXI rental.

This year, riders can take advantage of 490 more electric bikes, 31 new stations and 765 new docking points, BIXI said in a press release.

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BIXI Montreal Announced Its 2022 Prices & Pre-Season Deal

BIXI, Montreal's extremely popular bike-sharing program, has announced its 2022 pricing and pre-season deals. Once again this year, Montrealers can take advantage of a 10% discount on a seasonal membership before the spring BIXI launch.

Normally $92, the season-long subscription is $83 until April 15. Otherwise, monthly passes are $18. Both monthly and seasonal pass holders are charged an additional $0.10/minute after 45 minutes on a regular BIXI and $0.12 for every minute on an electric BIXI.

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Montrealers Rode ALL The BIXIs In 2021 With 5.8 Million Trips & More New Users Than Ever

Montrealers clearly love BIXI bikes, as illustrated by the company's record-breaking statistics for the 2021 season, which has just come to an end. If you have any doubts about that love, just take a look at the 5.8 million trips taken over the year.

Alexandre Taillefer, chairman of the board of directors of BIXI Montreal, called the company's historic figures "a testament to the ever-growing importance of the bike-sharing service, particularly the popularity of the growing number of stations and electrically-assisted bicycles."

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Montreal's BIXI Season Starts Winding Down Soon — Here's How Much Time Is Left To Ride

As summer winds down, so does the BIXI Montréal season. If you've been relying on the bike-sharing system to get around over the past five months, you may be wondering when you'll have to start using other modes of transit. Remember waiting for busses? Ugh.

The answer is November 15, which is when the BIXI season ends. Bixi says the bikes are taken off the network that day, and moved into storage in a warehouse in Rosemont-La Petite Patrie so they can "spend the winter warm inside."

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