A proposed bike lane on 6th Avenue downtown would be great for at least one specific group, according to a Kamloops councillor.

The bike lane would run from Columbia Street to Lansdowne Street and Kathy Sinclair thinks commuters could store their bikes at the bus depot and continue on their journey with BC Transit.

“You can sign up for monthly bike parking and nobody even sees your bicycle. You can lock it up at the transit loop and then go on your way from there and then bike the rest of the way home,” she said. “So, it’s promoting the multimodal approach, definitely encouraging folks to try getting around in different ways than a motor vehicle.”

Speaking on the NL Morning News, Sinclair thinks there will be people who would take advantage of the options, if its made available to them, noting it could lead to fewer cars heading downtown.

“I think there are folks who would like to bike all the way to work but perhaps they live in the Sagebrush area, they want to bike to the bus loop and then leave their bicycle there,” she said.

“There are other ways of getting around and so the folks who do live close enough for their daily commute will perhaps use those modes and that frees up a whole lot of parking spaces for the people who do need to drive and so I see it as win for the entire community.”

A multi-use path on Summit Drive is the other part of the proposal. Work on both will start this year if a $4-million-dollar grant is approved. If not, the city’s Transportation Manager Purvez Irani says the two projects would be done over five years.