New bike lane on Trans Canada Highway connects cyclists and pedestrians to Charlottetown

A newlane on the Trans Canada Highway is connecting cyclists and pedestrians from Cornwall to Charlottetown.

Thelane begins at the newMay Point roundaboutand proceeds along the North River Causeway Bridge. The laneties in Capital DriveandUptonRoad as well.

Travellers heading from Cornwall to Charlottetown will see the new path on the right hand side.

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The new path isfourlanes wide with a splitter island that has a six inch curb in the centre and a six inch curb on the outside edge in both directions said chief engineer for the P.E.I. Department ofTransportation, Stephen Yeo.

Demands for active transportation

The path itself is an eight-foot-wide paved area for cyclists and pedestrians to share.

Yeosaid the new path aims toprovidean avenue for cyclists and pedestrians to walk outside the traffic corridor.

"We hear it all the time. A request for more active transportation venues and this is just something we've provided as part of this project," said Yeo.

Yeo said active transportation venues are in high demand from the Charlottetown, Stratford and Cornwall communities.

More paved lanes to come

Yeo also saidthat there are more lanes to come next year.

"We're looking in other areas where we've put paved shoulders on existing cross sections that didn't have it before."

Yeo said that Islanders can expect a paved bike and pedestrian lane on Route 6between Kensington and Stanley Bridge to be completed as well.

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