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Getting around Montreal is hard enough with construction and street festivals, and now it’ll be even harder if you’re a Bixi user.

Bixi Montreal announced in a press release that it will be removing eight stations for “a few days” due to multiple “planned events in downtown Montreal area during the months of July and August.”

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Some of the station removals are to accommodate the many streets that will be used for Montreal’s Formula E Race from July 29-30. These five stations will be closed from July 21 to Aug. 11 for the Formula E: Papineau Ave and René-Lévesque Blvd., Viger Ave. and Wolfe St., Wolfe St. and René-Lévesque Blvd., St-André and St-Antoine Sts., and Ste-Catherine and St-Denis Sts. Other temporary removals are associated with Montreal Completement Cirque.

There was a recent outcry by restaurant and terrasse operators on Ontario St. E. after Montreal’s downtown borough ordered them to temporarily dismantle their terrasses for a week to make way for the Formula E car race.