The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) has started construction on two sections of bike lane on the north side of Highway 101.
Paving was expected to begin shortly on a 400-metre bike lane that will extend south from Curran Road to the north end of Redrooffs Road in Halfmoon Bay.
The second project, scheduled to start Feb. 2, will see another 400 metres of bike lane constructed from the Lehigh Materials conveyer belt east of Tsain-Ko Village Shopping Centre, past Monkey Tree Lane toward Selma Park Road.
“We won’t make it all the way to Selma Park Road, but we’re hoping to finish it next year,” MOTI area manager Don Legault said last Friday.
Each project is budgeted at $25,000 and will be completed by the end of March, he said.
Meanwhile, Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) staff is proposing bike lane construction projects this year for Marine Drive in West Howe Sound, Gower Point Road in Elphinstone and Redrooffs Road in Halfmoon Bay.
Bike lanes proposed for Egmont Road and Garden Bay Road in Area A are both in the planning phase, “so we’re not sure we’ll get to construction this year,” parks planning coordinator Sam Adams said.
All of the SCRD bike lane projects are funded from the federal gas tax program.
Legault said MOTI confines its bike lane projects on the Sunshine Coast to Highway 101, while SCRD directors concentrate on priority roads for people in their areas.
