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The city of Montreal hopes to expand the Bixi bike-sharing service to more neighbourhoods next year, Mayor Valérie Plante said Wednesday.

“We intend to enlarge the zone that is served to make the service available in more boroughs, to ensure that in areas that are less well served, people can try it and take advantage of this service,” the mayor said at a meeting of the executive committee.

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Plante said expanding to more boroughs won’t happen until next year, but she would announce some surprises for this year’s edition of the bike-sharing program at a news conference on Tuesday to kick off the Bixi season, which runs April 15 to Nov. 15.

“I know that Montrealers are waiting impatiently. They are very excited about the idea of getting back on their bikes,” she said.

Workers have already started installing Bixi stations around the city — a harbinger of spring despite the snow flurries expected Wednesday evening, Plante noted.