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New bike path will finally link north and south sectors of Ste. Anne

JASON MAGDER
The Gazette
Thursday, September 11, 2008

It’s taken 10 years, but the two sections of Ste. Anne de Bellevue will finally be linked with a bicycle path.
Mayor Bill Tierney said the town is in the process of completing the path, which runs from the town’s main street, up Anciens Combattants Blvd. to Highway 40.
The path will be extended about 1.2 kilometres over the highway and run along the overpass to Ste. Marie Rd. It will then run along the road until the entrance to the Morgan Arboretum at Pine Rd.
Tierney said the work should be completed in a month.
This portion of the path will cost the town about $1.3 million.
Much of the work that needs to be done is to fence in the path so that it’s safe for people crossing the highway.
The next phases of the path are expected to be completed next year.
The second phase will run along Ste. Marie Rd. until Meloche St., at a cost of about $1 million. The third phase would pass through the woods of l’Anse à l’Orme and link to a hydro servitude. That would link the path to the towns of Kirkland and Dollard des Ormeaux, which have used the servitude for a path that links the two towns to the Bois de Liesse Nature Park, which also has bike paths. The third phase will cost a little less than $1 million, Tierney said.
“When we’re done, we’ll have a great ecological link from one part of our town to another,” Tierney said.