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With temperatures hovering around 30C for the next few days, it may be difficult to think about snow, but the city’s hardiest cyclists are already anxious about how they’ll get around during the winter.

Anie Samson, the executive committee member who manages snow clearing for the city, promises it will be better this winter for all Montrealers, including cyclists, because Montreal will have a new city-wide snow-clearing policy in place.

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Samson said streets that have four-season bike paths will be considered Priority 1 streets. That means plowing and snow-clearing operations will be done first on those streets.

Magali Bebronne, a Vélo Quebec spokesperson for winter-cycling issues, said the city has done a poor job in the past of keeping its so-called four-season bike paths free of snow and she’s not sure the new policy will improve matters.

“It’s encouraging that the word ‘bicycle’ is used in the policy, but there is no particular attention paid to bikes,” Bebronne said.