10-13-2018, 12:33 AM
(10-12-2018, 11:57 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Looks like the IHT to hub trail is getting some interim solutions while some property issues are getting straightened out.
Sharrows will be installed on Waverly Road, and a widening of the sidewalk and installation of sharrows on Joseph Street to connect to Victoria Street. Trail will be 2.65m wide under the Park St bridge.
"Geoff Keyworth, stated that staff are looking at the possibility of creating a multi-use trail between Joseph Street and King Street on Victoria Street; but it would be an odd design. He further noted that staff are looking at how to handle Victoria Street as a whole. He stated that a good argument can be made to either widen Victoria Street to four lanes throughout or have a road diet and encourage active transportation facilities and an improved streetscape. The Committee discussed the challenges related to the contaminated Epton lands and agreed that the short multi-use trail on Victoria Street would provide a reasonable interim connection between King Street and Joseph Street."
Also, the original funding deadline of March 31, 2019 has been extended to March 31, 2020, and construction of the interim alignment will start in April 2019 and be completed by March 31, 2020.
I wonder if the extra time wouldn't allow for some of the pieces of the preferred direct route to be put in place instead. $1.5M is a lot for a trail route that isn't going serve many very well.
I too was surprised by the cost.
I'm also surprised by the need to widen Gage at the creek culvert. There's parking on one side, I would have thought removing the parking would leave enough room...
I too am disappointed by of the compromises and the 'interim solutions' but it's especially frustrating that the delays given us the opportunity to use the time to expropriate the small piece of land at the end of Stewart St. and railway crossing required to make this a far better solution.