to formalize the Route verte between downtown Rimouski and the Bic area. The result of a financial partnership between the Quebec government (MTMDET: 257,000 $), the federal government (DEC: 475,000 $), the City of Rimouski (245,000 $) and a fund-raising effort orchestrated by the Association Rimouski ville cyclable (50,000 $), this tunnel now provides safe access across Route 132 to the Bic sector. This development adds a 10-kilometre section to the Route verte in the Bas-Saint-Laurent, for a total of 612 kilometers developed in the region.
For Louis Carpentier, development manager of Route verte at Vélo Québec This represents the culmination of several years of juggling different scenarios, work in which the Vélo Québec team played a part. It bodes well for the future, which includes another crossing of Route 132 at the western end of the village of Le Bic, and the consolidation of the region's cycling network.«
To be able to complete this work and others like it elsewhere in Quebec, Vélo Québec hopes that funding for programs to increase cyclists' safety on the roads and develop Route verte - funding announced in the Quebec government's 2016-2017 budget in March 2016 - will soon be confirmed.
