Improvements on Lund Street over the summer will make the road wider and safer.
Surveying work is currently underway on the street which winds its way up Wildwood Hill. Crews from BA Blacktop, the company which completed the Port Mann Bridge resurfacing last year, are preparing to widen and resurface the road over the summer from King Avenue down to the Wildwood bridge.
Clint Monson, area manager for ministry of transportation and infrastructure, said parts of the road up the hill were too narrow and will be widened to 3.6 metres.
The wider road means there will be more room for bicycles and pedestrians to use the highway safely, he said.
While the Switchback Trail, which runs through the woods down Wildwood Hill, provides an alternate route, some have expressed a preference for walking on the side of the road because it is lit with street lights and means they are not walking in the woods alone.
Monson said he expects the project to be completed by the end of August.
Monson has a Twitter account where readers can find road reports, alerts and information about single-lane alternating traffic during construction. Interested readers can follow @TranBC_Powell.
