Cookies help us to understand how you use our website so that we can provide you with the best experience when you are on our site. To find out more, read our privacy policy and cookie policy.
Manage Cookies
A cookie is information stored on your computer by a website you visit. Cookies often store your settings for a website, such as your preferred language or location. This allows the site to present you with information customized to fit your needs. As per the GDPR law, companies need to get your explicit approval to collect your data. Some of these cookies are ‘strictly necessary’ to provide the basic functions of the website and can not be turned off, while others if present, have the option of being turned off. Learn more about our Privacy and Cookie policies. These can be managed also from our cookie policy page.
Strictly necessary cookies(always on):
Necessary for enabling core functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. This cannot be turned off. e.g. Sign in, Language
Analytics cookies:
Analytical cookies help us to analyse user behaviour, mainly to see if the users are able to find and act on things that they are looking for. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. Tools used: Google Analytics
Social media cookies:
We use social media cookies from Facebook, Twitter and Google to run Widgets, Embed Videos, Posts, Comments and to fetch profile information.
Blair-Preston Pedestrian Trail Bridge and Trail:
Environmental Assessment (EA)
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedinEmail this link
The City of Cambridge and the Region of Waterloo are undertaking a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment to study a future pedestrian bridge and trail to connect the communities of Blair and Preston. Routes are being considered through lands owned by the rare Charitable Research Reserve.
The new off-road link will connect the B. McMullen Linear Trail to the existing multi-use trail on Fountain Street via a bridge over the Speed River. The bridge and trail will provide a major off-road connection to downtown Preston as well as a connection to the 401 pedestrian bridge linking Kitchener and the Doon area.
The need for an off-road route through this area was identified in the City of Cambridge’s Trails Master Plan (2010) and Cycling Master Plan (2020) and the Region of Waterloo’s Active Transportation Master Plan (2014).
The approximate extent of the Study Area is shown on the map below.
Consultation is important to this Study. The City invites public input and will consider all opinions as part of the decisions that are made. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey below.
The City of Cambridge and the Region of Waterloo are undertaking a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment to study a future pedestrian bridge and trail to connect the communities of Blair and Preston. Routes are being considered through lands owned by the rare Charitable Research Reserve.
The new off-road link will connect the B. McMullen Linear Trail to the existing multi-use trail on Fountain Street via a bridge over the Speed River. The bridge and trail will provide a major off-road connection to downtown Preston as well as a connection to the 401 pedestrian bridge linking Kitchener and the Doon area.
The need for an off-road route through this area was identified in the City of Cambridge’s Trails Master Plan (2010) and Cycling Master Plan (2020) and the Region of Waterloo’s Active Transportation Master Plan (2014).
The approximate extent of the Study Area is shown on the map below.
Consultation is important to this Study. The City invites public input and will consider all opinions as part of the decisions that are made. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey below.
Thank you for participating in the development of a trail and pedestrian bridge spanning the Speed River. The City of Cambridge is undertaking this study to consider several routing alternatives for the trail and bridge that will connect the communities of Blair and Preston and support active transportation in the community.
Public input is an important component of the decision-making process. Please assist the Study Team by providing your input through this brief survey.
