Protected Bike Lanes: McDermot Avenue (phase 1)

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The McDermot Avenue Phase 1 project, from Arlington Street to Kate Street, includes protected bike lanes, as well as street renewal. It involves renewals of the street and sidewalks around the University of Manitoba Bannatynne Campus, Cancer Care Manitoba and the Health Sciences Centre. It also improves street crossing for pedestrians and adds protected bike lanes. These improvements are supported by the Pedestrian and Cycling Strategies (policy). The bike lanes provide east-west bicycle connectivity to north-south transit routes. McDermot is currently a two-way street that runs through the Health Sciences Center and the U of M Bannatyne Campus that will be converted to a one-way street with a protected bicycle corridor. Phase 1 requires street renewal in order to incorporate the bike lanes because of the street condition, the reconfiguration of the road to one-way, and to accommodate revised drainage required as a result of the added barrier from the bike lane.

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