The Destination Reeves St. Project is going ahead.
Town Councillors in Port Hawkesbury unanimously defeated a motion to remove the road diet component of the project at February’s regular meeting Tuesday night.
They also unanimously passed a motion to support the project with some changes; for example, the Reeves St. redesign portion of the project remains, but the bike lane component has been removed.
During his presentation, Dwayne Cross from the province’s Department of Transportation said bike lanes could be done at some point in the future, but that was not part of the new motion.
After the meeting, Brenda Chisholm-Beaton, Port Hawkesbury’s mayor, said the pilot timeline for the road diet component is clearly defined.
“The pilot was framed in a way that we would have to at least cycle through the four seasons so that we could understand how that road worked- fall, the winter, the spring, and the summer- and all the different variations of traffic in all of those different seasons,” she said. “We were able to articulate a more definitive timeline as a result of the conversations we had in the past month.”
Chisholm-Beaton said there will be a three-month adjustment period, followed by 12 months of monitoring.
She said the start of road changes could happen as early as August.
