Part of a new multi-use path along London Line in Sarnia could be built this year.
Sarnia council is being asked to accept a tender of just over $670,000 for the project on Monday.
Mayor Mike Bradley said the path would be built between Blackwell Sideroad and Old London Road.
"What this will do is bring safety for pedestrians, and for those that drive on that important strip," said Bradley. "It's an important economic strip. There's a lot of people that work out there, there's a lot of people that are out there for different reasons as it relates to the businesses there. So, this is a safety enhancement that is overdue."
"Which is now highly used," he said. "That pathway gives people safety on a very busy street and this will obtain the same goals and it's part of this whole master transportation plan of trying to make the community function. Not just for the automobile, but for cyclists, for people who are pedestrians, and give them total safety when they are out there in their own community."
City staff are still negotiating plans with the Ministry of Transportation [MTO] to facilitate a crossing for the London Line/Highway 40 overpass.
The city is spending about $4 million on road rehabilitation this year.
"There are 21 roads that we're paving this year, plus another ten we're doing with other work, so it's going to be the summer of the orange cone," Bradley said.
Council is being asked to award two road resurfacing contracts on Monday.
Staff are asking council to approve a $1.35 million tender for asphalt resurfacing throughout the city and just over $1 million to resurface Telfer Road from Michigan Line to Blackwell Road and Jackson Road to the curve just north of Highway 402.