Work on dangerous Charlottetown hill has begun near malls
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Heavy equipment with Island Coastal Ltd. began work Aug. 29 on a paved pathway between Walmart and Sleep Nation in Charlottetown.
The work is happening on a steep embankment which connects the 2 parking tons.
Steve Advantage, vice-president of company affairs for Good Centres, which owns the property, instructed SaltWire in an e-mail on Aug. 28 that the tender for the undertaking had been awarded and work would begin any day.
The pathway will 450 measure ft in size and eight ft in width.
An unmaintained rocky, sandy path existed alongside the steeply-graded portion of Spencer Drive previous to this work.
Fusion Charlottetown, a non-profit advocacy group for folks aged 18 to 40 has been pushing Good Centres to behave for greater than a 12 months now, saying the grade created a harmful path for folks with mobility or sight points.
Fusion has additionally been calling for pedestrian crosswalks on the prime and backside of the hill.
In an interview with SaltWire in June, Sarah Outram, president of Fusion Charlottetown, tried to display what individuals who used the unmaintained pathway confronted day by day, fastidiously watching her step as she made her means down the hill.
“That is unsafe. Somebody could possibly be significantly damage right here,” Outram stated.
Fusion can be calling for pedestrian crosswalks on the prime and backside of the hill.
Crews are anticipated to start out pouring concrete on Aug. 30.
Dave Stewart is a reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. He could be reached at [email protected] and on X @DveStewart
