The province has announced over $85 million in funding for 11 active-transportation projects across sa国际传媒, including an overpass for the Galloping Goose Regional Trail at Tillicum Road.
The overpass will feature a multi-use pathway that improves the area’s “highly utilized active-transportation network,” said Minister of Transportation Rob Fleming, who is also MLA for Victoria-Swan Lake.
“This will help even more people in our community be able to safely, reliably and confidently walk, ride and roll to get from point A to B and everywhere in between.”
He said that overpasses, trail networks and bike lanes being put in place around the province “will give a new generation new ways to travel within and between their communities.”
Funding is coming from the Active Transportation Capital Fund. The government did not say how much money each project was getting.
The 11 new projects are in addition to another 80 that received a total of $24 million through Active Transportation Infrastructure Grant program earlier this year.
Other projects supported by the latest round of funding include a multi-use pathway in New Westminster’s Queensborough neighbourhood to connect the central commercial district with existing infrastructure, a nine-kilometre multi-use pathway between Smithers and Telkwa, and an initiative to determine the feasibility of adding bike lanes and sidewalks to the Kootenay Lake bridge.
