The first permanent liveliness corridor will be put into office at the end of the work, which must soon begin and whose end is planned in mid-November.
The existing cycle strip delimited at the edge of the roadway by lineage and bollards, set up in the summer of 2023, will be improved, between the 25th and the 52nd street, on the 4th East avenue.
The “upgrade” will allow the creation of two unidirectional cycle paths enhanced, halfway up between the roadway and the sidewalk, and physically separated from the car tracks.
According to Quebec City, this new configuration “will facilitate cohabitation between different road users and increase the level of comfort”.
The sidewalks will also be widened for the benefit of pedestrians, green marking will appear at the intersections, also raised, just like cycling fires.
The new secure corridor will cross the Lairet and Saint-Rodrigue districts, over a distance of 1.7 kilometers. Ultimately, the merchant administration wants to develop this link so that it connects the Saint-Roch and Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides districts.
A public consultation approach had been held until the fall of 2024 to inform residents of the arrival of the site.
It was then quantified that the redevelopment would result in the disappearance of nearly fifty parking spaces in the streets parallel to the 4th avenue.
“Completely refurbished”
The construction of this first permanent liveliness corridor is part of an even greater transformation of 4th Avenue East.
A metamorphosis at almost $ 12 million, according to municipal documents made public on Thursday.
“It is not to make a cycle path which costs 11.9 million”, nuance in an interview with Soleil The vice-president of the executive committee responsible for mobility, Pierre-Luc Lachance.
From this spring, the city provides for the complete repair of the street surface and paving, the planting of almost thirty protruding trees, but above all the replacement of the aqueduct and desurate sewer pipes on the axis.
After the interventions planned on underground and surface infrastructure, Quebec says that it will offer “a 4th avenue completely refurbished to citizens”.
The right arm of mayor Bruno Marchand underlines that all of this work had been assessed at more than 16.9 million by the city.
The contract was finally granted to five million less than expected.
Elsewhere
The merchant administration has in its boxes to arrange some 12.7 new kilometers of vivacity corridors this year, divided into seven projects, most of which will be evolving.
By 2034, it aims that the network extend over 150 kilometers, crossing 85 % of the 35 districts of the city, as much in the suburbs as in the outskirts.
