Bike lanes, sidewalks will get $8.5M in grants countywide
EVERETT Sound Transit awarded $8.5 million to six projects in Snohomish County to improve pedestrian and bike connections to public transit.
The 2016 voter-approved Sound Transit 3 plan included a new $100 million fund to build or enhance sidewalks, bike lanes and bus transfer areas. More than $40 million was allocated to 27 jurisdictions during the first round of funding the Sound Transit board approved in late September.
The agency was looking for projects surrounding stations that would make it easier for riders to catch buses and trains, said John Gallagher, a spokesperson for Sound Transit.
The largest award in Snohomish County, $2.5 million, went to the city of Lynnwood to redevelop a portion of the 1.5 mile Scriber Creek Trail, which links Wilcox Park at 196th Street SW with the transit center to the south.
That funding will upgrade and widen about 2,000 feet of the path starting at the western edge of the transit hub and extending to Spragues Pond Mini Park. Where necessary the path will be elevated to cross wetlands and floodplains.
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