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Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan

Assistance to coordinate and support economic, environmental and cultural activities in Muskoka.

There are two linear parks in Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality (MRC): the P’tit Train du Nord and the Aerobic Corridor. In Chapter 2 of its land use and development plan, which came into effect in 2000, Les Laurentides MRC states that its objective is to offer a more diversified and better integrated recreational tourism product, in particular through the implementation of a widely known recreational tourism network based on the P’tit Train du Nord Regional Linear Park and the Aerobic Corridor Regional Park. In Chapter 6, under Recreational Network Planning, the MRC identifies a project to interconnect the Aerobic Corridor Regional Park and the P’tit Train du Nord Regional Linear Park. That project is the subject of this application. It has been at the planning stage for more than two decades and has both regional support and the support of the local municipalities that make up the MRC. The two linear parks traverse the MRC but are not interconnected. As a result, there is no marked, safe route for moving from one park to the other on the west side. The two linear parks also cross through the neighbouring MRC to the east and are interconnected there. The Aerobic Corridor is an exceptionally scenic linear park that traverses the municipalities of Montcalm, Arundel, Huberdeau and Amherst, four local municipalities in the southern part of Les Laurentides MRC that have a negative economic vitality index (as determined by the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation du Québec). Unlike the P’tit Train du Nord, which is very popular, the Aerobic Corridor remains relatively unknown to visitors and local and regional residents, despite the various promotional and advertising activities carried out in recent years. The most recent data shows higher use since 2020 because of the pandemic. Looping the western portion of the Aerobic Corridor (within Les Laurentides MRC) would make it a completely integrated cycling circuit in connection with the P’tit Tr

The Ville de Pont-Rouge project aims to produce two prefeasibility studies for active transportation infrastructures, as well as activities to promote and raise awareness of active transportation.

The planning project will include a technical assessment of the costs associated with the development of a dedicated bicycle path on the abandoned railway right-of-way between Saint-Hyacinthe and Farnham. The objective is to obtain all the information needed to evaluate the project’s costs and to inform the various stakeholders and the Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) of the MRCs’ willingness to take possession of the railway spur. Accordingly, this planning project may lead to a capital project to inaugurate a dedicated bike path between Saint-Hyacinthe and Farnham.

The project submitted to the ATF is the first phase of planning for the creation of an active transportation backbone in Scott with the goal of submitting a capital project application in 2023 for the completion of THE Scott Multi-Trail. The creation of a trail of this scale will be a first for the municipality of Scott, which has been working for years to make active travel safe while providing recreational infrastructure open to all residents.

The Municipality wants to hire an consultant firm to prepare a document for the MTQ to demonstrate the need to build a sidewalk for the safety of residents and to encourage them to use their cars less and reduce greenhouse gases.
The Municipality has to submit the application, since the land where the sidewalk would have to be built belongs to the MTQ.
The MTQ has been asked a number of times to improve safety for residents, especially children, in that area. One of those requests was for a crosswalk and expansion of the village’s speed reduction area. The requests were all denied.
In addition, survey work is required for the construction of a new sidewalk. We want to include that work in our application.
It is understood that if the application is properly submitted to the MTQ and is accepted, the Municipality will cover the construction costs.
We have already submitted a Priority 1 application for the capital component. This planning project is a Priority 2 application.