After the record-breaking snowfall Montreal has experienced this week, the city is doing its best to bounce back.
As of yesterday, over 10 000 km of roads, sidewalks and bike paths have been cleared.
How to track Montreal’s snow removal?
There are three ways to track Montreal’s snow removal:
1. INFO-Neige MTL app (available on the App Store and Google Play)
2. Snow removal map: Consult this map to learn when your street will be cleared of snow. It presents planning for snow removal operations. The map also shows incentive parking lots, where you can park your car for free during snow removal operations.
Time Out Tip: there are more than 8,500 free overnight parking spots across the city in the event that you must move your car during street-clearing operations.
3. Progress of snow removal operations: Once the city starts clearing snow, this table charts the progress of snow-removal operations in each borough. Snow plowed to the sides of streets is transferred to trucks and taken to snow dumping sites. The table shows the number of kilometres of streets from which snow has been removed.
When will trash and recycling be collected?
With garbage collection, recycling and composting services suspended for the week, Montrealers are being urged to keep garbage on balconies or inside.
The city is also encouraging city dwellers to bring any bags spotted on snow banks to avoid jamming the snowplows.
How does the city prioritize snow clearing?
Snow is cleared from Montreal’s streets based on three levels of priority:
1. Major thoroughfares, access to schools and health institutions, priority bus routes and reserved lanes, major shopping streets.
2. Collector streets, local shopping streets, other bus routes.
3. Industrial and residential areas.
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