January 28, 2024 - (Hamilton, ON) Hamilton City Council hopes to speed up progress on bike path construction with a $60-million initiative to fast-track the development of 140 km of new or improved bikes lanes by 2028, and catch up on the city’s lagging long-term cycling master plan reports the Hamilton Spectator.

That’s an average of 30 kilometres constructed annually — or twice the average completed in recent years. More than half of the new bike lanes will also be physically separated from car traffic.

“It is meant to be a bold plan,” said transportation planning director Brian Hollingworth and advocacy groups like Cycle Hamilton support the initiative while others say the plan is “hardly an acceleration, but where we should have been the whole time.”

Read the full article by Matthew Van Dongen here.