Port of Vancouver prepares to build trail extension this year

Port of Vancouver — The port is getting ready to build more segments of the now-spotty paved trail that separates pedestrians and cyclists from trucks and cars on Lower River Road. It recently filed paperwork describing its plan to add two trail extensions, totalling 0.83 miles, on the south side of the road. Construction of the first extension has already been funded via the federal government and is expected to begin in late spring of this year and take six months; it will add a half mile that runs west from the corner of West Mill Plain Boulevard and St. Francis Lane to the port’s administrative offices. The second segment, which is still looking for funding and will be built later, will add another third of a mile continuing west from the administrative offices to the beginning of the existing trail.