Thompson: $2.9 Million Grant for Broadview Bike Path on 25th Ave.

Chicago IL

09 February, 2022

3:18 PM

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(Broadview, IL) – West suburban Broadview has won a $2.9 million grant to build a pike path along one the town's principal arteries the town's mayor announced on Monday. The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning has awarded the Village of Broadview $2,903,548 to construct a bike path along 25th Avenue Mayor Katrina Thompson told the village's Board of Trustees during its regular board meeting on February 7. "I'm really excited about this $2 million bike path grant because as we create a healthy lifestyle through biking, which will be an alternative form of transportation in Broadview, and it will also give people who work in the industrial area a safe and healthy travel option," said Thompson, a biking enthusiast who organizes community bike rides during the spring, summer and fall months. "I am deeply grateful to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning for this $2.9 million bike path grant because of the healthy impact it will have on Broadview." The bike path, which will stretch through both the village's industrial zone and the Cook County forest preserve, will see the engineering phase begin by the fall of 2022 and construction will commence by the spring of 2024, according to Thompson. [email protected]