Recorder & Times / Wayne Lowrie / 24 January 2020
The United Counties of Leeds and Grenville will begin paving the shoulders of major counties roads when they are rebuilt.
The paved-shoulders policy, long advocated by cyclists and safety experts, was approved unanimously by counties council this week.
Adding a 1.5-metre paved strip on each side of a new road would add about $35,000 per kilometre to construction costs, Arup Mukherjee, public works director, told council in a report.
And although the paved shoulders would be widely used by cyclists, Mukherjee cautioned that they wouldn’t be called bike lanes.
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