City hall plans more than $16M in sidewalks, cycling corridors over next three years

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City hall plans to spend $16.2 million over the next three years on sidewalks and cycling corridors.

A proposal for consideration at Tuesday’s public works committee states the administration is proposing to spend $5.4 million in each of the next three years — 2019, 2020, 2021 — on new sidewalks, cycling corridors and programs to support cycling education.

The public works department has also listed 14 cycling and pedestrian-related infrastructure projects, with a total price tag of $74.5 million, that it wants to complete; no funding sources are identified.

The process for the projects approval was set in place in 2015 when council approved the award-winning Pedestrian and Cycling Strategies, which requires approval from the public works committee for individual pedestrian and cycling projects carried out each year before going to council.

While the projects are approved for a three-year period, council must authorize spending annually in the capital budgets.

While civic departments have been preparing budget proposals since the spring, the new council is expected to begin review of the 2019 budget in January.

The cycling and pedestrian projects, identified in the initial 2015 strategy report, include new sidewalks on regional and local streets, new multi-use pathways, new cycling routes, crossing control improvements, public education programs and a series of awareness and promotion and partnership grants.

The administrative report says that if the approved projects come in under budget, or if additional funding is provided by Ottawa or the province, that money would be redirected to one or more of the other 14 projects — but only after the committee approves the spending.

Proposed 2019 pedestrian, cycling projects

Local sidewalks

• $200,000 — Cliffwood Drive west/Newcroft Road north/Shamrock Drive south

• $200,000 — Wellington Crescent, north side from Omands path to Renfrew Street

Cycling corridors

• $200,000 — West Broadway to University of Winnipeg connection, preliminary design

• $250,000 – Maryland/Sherbrook upgrade to protected bike lane (select locations)

• $250,000 — Leila Avenue bicycle facility, functional design

• $300,000 — Keewatin Street pathway Burrows Avenue to Gallagher Avenue, functional design

• $550,000 — St. Boniface west-east corridor study and improvements

Recreational walkways, cycling paths

• $1.7 million — Transcona Trail, Regent Avenue to Panet Road

• $300,000 — Rover Avenue to Chief Peguis Trail study

• $1.1 million — Northwest hydro corridor, Phase 2

Public education, awareness and promotions

• $75,000 — Bike parking in parks, various locations, sign installation

• $25,000 — Communication, education and promotions campaigns

• $50,000 — Active and safe routes to school, various locations

Bicycle parking partnership grants — installations

• $10,000 — Exchange District BIZ

• $5,000 — Selkirk BIZ

• $10,000 — Downtown Winnipeg BIZ

Public education, awareness and promotion partnership grants

• $10,000 — International Trails Day (Winnipeg Trails)

• $10,300 — Winnipeg Trails

• $45,000 — Bike Week Winnipeg

• $35,000 — WRENCH

• $1,750 — Movable Feast (Downtown Winnipeg BIZ)

• $6,450 — Bike Friendly Business Program (Downtown Winnipeg BIZ)

• $2,500 — Pedal in the Peg (Downtown Winnipeg BIZ)

• $7,000 — Infrastructure Educational Videos (Exchange District BIZ)

• $7,000 — Bike Friendly BIZ (Exchange District BIZ)

• $20,000 — Commuter Challenge (Green Action Centre)

• $10,000 — Bike to School Month (Green Action Centre)

• $20,000 — Bike Education and Skills Training (Green Action Centre)

Projects subject to additional funding

• $15 million — Fort Rouge to McFadyen Park Bridge over the Assiniboine River

• $15 million — Bishop Grandin greenway over Pembina Highway

• $6 million — Maple Street through-pass of the CPR mainline

• $7 million — New crossing of the Seine River

• $3 million — Northwest hydro corridor construction, remaining phases

• $2.2 million — Confusion Corner to Fort Rouge Park, bicycle connection

• $10 million — Ruby/Banning neighbourhood greenway construction and road renewal

• $2.7 million — Wolseley Avenue/Westminster Avenue/Balmoral Street/Granite Way, construction

• $2 million — Keewatin Street underpass bicycle facility, construction

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• $2 million — Waverley Street, John Angus Drive to Victor Lewis Drive, construction

• $4 million — Downtown west-east corridor connection

• $500,000 — Princess Street, Higgins Avenue to William Avenue

• $2 million — West Broadway to University of Winnipeg, connection

• $4 million — Leila Avenue, construction