Regional County Municipality of Les-Pays-d’en-Haut

Published purpose

The feasibility study is the next step following a major environmental scan conducted around the sports centre in 2019. The sports centre is scheduled to open in the summer of 2022; it is nearing completion. It will provide the 47,105 residents of Pays-d’en-Haut MRC with high-quality sports facilities (arena, pool, badminton court, volleyball court, soccer field, etc.). We would like people to use active transportation to get to the sports centre: walking or biking to the centre via a safe route seems entirely consistent with its planned uses. Currently, the road to the centre is not considered active transportation-friendly, and most people get to the centre by vehicle on the provincial highway. The feasibility study will provide a detailed exploration of solutions that take into account the road and terrain constraints in the area. In addition, the feasibility study is a tool for making the configuration and materials decisions required to estimate our project’s costs. The study will culminate in the selection of a solution leading to a capital project, to be undertaken at the same time as the reconfiguration of the Highway 117/Highway 15 interchange by the MTQ. Note that the Town of Sainte-Adèle is currently planning to build a sidewalk to École secondaire A-N Morin, but it will not connect to the sports centre. For all these reasons, the MRC wants to engage the services of a firm to plan the connection from the sports centre to the P’tit Train du Nord trail (234 km from Green Route 2), an active mobility link connecting two major sports infrastructures.