A deadly car crash last month on Lougheed Highway has resulted in Coquitlam city staff launching a study to improve road safety in the area of Riverview Hospital.
The head-on collision that killed a one driver and injured others closed off Lougheed at Pitt River Road for hours on the afternoon of April 16.
Last week, Coquitlam's council-in-committee heard that engineers will look at Lougheed between Orchid Drive and Colony Farm Road, which has been a municipal corridor for 14 years and has been the subject of numerous reports in the past.
That stretch of road sees one of the highest traffic volumes in the city and "tends to have some of the fastest vehicular speeds and most catastrophic crashes," wrote Bill Susak, Coquitlam's general manager of engineering and public works.
The new study, which is due to start later this year, will examine the need for widening the corridor for median and road-edge barriers as well as creating cycling paths and rebuilding the retaining wall against the Riverview Hospital grounds.
The new study will involve stakeholders such as BC Building Corp., which owns Riverview, CP Rail, cycling representatives and utility companies.
