Friends of Rails to Trails Vancouver Island

$45,000.00 CAD

≈ 7 months of average Canadian pay
Department
Department of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities
Program
Permanent Public Transit Program
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2022-2023
Agreement period
December 20, 2022 – March 31, 2023
Reference
infc:278-2022-2023-Q3-00008

Published purpose

This planning project is to investigate the costs and benefits and the barriers to the conversion of over 300 km of derelict rail corridor on Vancouver Island to an active transportation network that would link 6 First Nations reservations and 24, mostly coastal cities, towns, villages and small communities on Vancouver Island.

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