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MPO reviews Vision 88 bike network progress and posts regional bike‑rack inventory; members flag e‑bike safety and Canal connections

Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Policy Board · December 16, 2025
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Summary

Staff updated the MPO on Vision 88 (an 88‑mile shared‑use path vision), progress on missing links and design costs, and a regional bicycle‑rack inventory (about 480 locations / ~900 racks). Members raised safety concerns about e‑bikes and urged integrating bridge/canal crossings into regional planning.

The MPO received an update on Vision 88 — a plan to create an 88‑mile continuous shared‑use path across Cape Cod — and on a new regional bicycle‑rack inventory.

Dave Nolan, senior transportation planner at the Cape Cod Commission, summarized progress and gaps: funded segments total roughly 10 miles, 115 miles of existing paved shared‑use paths exist today, and about 43.5 miles of potential paved shared‑use paths are under consideration to fill network gaps. He highlighted four key missing links: the Bourne Rail Trail alignment, connections in Sandwich to the Canal Service Road path, a Cape Cod Rail Trail…

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