By Madeline Baker, Times Chronicle
The pedestrian corridor between 1802 and 2024 45th Street, otherwise known as Lakeshore Drive, will receive a major safety upgrade before the year is out, according to the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS).
Rudi Weckel, the Osoyoos Lake pathway improvement project’s leader, explained in a release that 2018’s flooding caused irreparable damage to the pathway’s geobag retaining wall.
The Osoyoos Lake pathway, which was built in 2014 “to provide a safe pedestrian corridor and connectivity between an existing pathway within the Town of Osoyoos and Osoyoos Lake Regional Park,” will now have its failed retaining wall and erosion protection structure removed and replaced.
A portion of the roadway itself will also be removed and repaved for motorists’ safety. Traffic control will be used as required along the aforementioned strip of 45th Street until the work is completed, which the RDOS estimates will be in late December of this year.
