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Westmount will soon allow users of car-sharing services to leave their cars at metered parking spots on its territory — for free.

It will become the first demerged municipality on the island of Montreal to allow one-way car- sharing services, wherein users can pick up a car and leave it wherever they want, as opposed to having to pick it up and return it to a designated spot. It’s also the first territory on the island to give free access to parking meter spaces, a practice common in other cities in North America.

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Westmount city council passed a notice of motion Monday to amend their bylaw regarding metered parking with the view that car-sharing services are the way of the future, said Philip Cutler, city councillor responsible for transportation.

“All municipalities need to be thinking about where vehicular transportation is going to be headed, and car sharing, ride sharing, electrification, all of these things are coming,” Cutler said. “And we need to start planning our infrastructure and resources accordingly right now.”