Montréal puts $15.8 million into snow fleet and winter operations

Montréal says it will invest $15.8 million in snow-removal equipment and operations as it prepares for coming winters.

The city announced on October 15 that $13.3 million is earmarked for 43 pieces of equipment: 19 loaders, 13 snow-blower heads and 11 spreader trucks. Another $2.5 million will go to boroughs so they can mobilize more than 16 additional spreading units.

The plan also creates a weather and operations monitoring cell to track snow, freezing rain and rain and adjust deployments. Montréal says its Go-Géo platform will be rolled out progressively during the winter so residents can follow spreading and sidewalk-clearing progress online in real time.

Several other elements are plans rather than completed changes. Two pothole-repair expertise hubs with eight new blue-collar teams are due to begin work January 1, 2027. A tender is under way for eight additional mechanized patchers; the city’s stated goal is 18 teams working simultaneously on the arterial network. Montréal also plans to test a starfish-based de-icing additive.

Source: Ville de Montréal, winter operations announcement, published October 15, 2026.

Featured image: Illustrative stock photo of a snowplow, not Montréal’s new equipment. Photo by JavyGo via Unsplash; cropped and resized by West Island Blog.