POV_P1A-trail-08152013_067_webWhile the port’s West Vancouver Freight Access rail project and Centennial Industrial Park demonstrate our commitment to enhance economic benefit in our community, the port is growing in another area as well.

Two grants from the Federal Transportation Program (TAP) in the amount of more than $350,000 will allow the port to design and build a bike and pedestrian path that begins at the convergence of Mill Plain, Fourth Plain and Lower River Road and continues west along Lower River Road for about a half mile to the entrance to the port’s administrative building.

The 12–foot pathway will separate pedestrians and cyclists from higher speed traffic and eventually meet up with the existing half mile multi-use path located between the port’s administrative building and Gateway Avenue, to the west on Lower River Road.

Currently, about 2,300 people come to work for businesses at the Port of Vancouver USA every day, with 80 percent of those workers living within Clark County. With the expansion of port operations due to project such as the West Vancouver Freight Access rail project, the path will connect residential areas, the city of Vancouver’s bike path system, and C-Trans’ bus service network to the maritime and industrial businesses along Lower River Road, which make up one of Clark County’s largest job centers.