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Sunday bike route barricades are coming back, council votes

A motion to bring back the barricades on Wellington Crescent and other bike route streets on Sundays and holidays passed through council on Wednesday.

Coun. Orlikow says the barricades will be back 'as quickly as possible'

Wellington Crescent, Wolseley Avenue, Scotia Street and Lyndale Drive are four Winnipeg streets that become cycling routes - and are closed to vehicular traffic -every Sunday during the summer. (CBC)

A motion to bring back the barricades on Sunday and holiday bike routes was passed by council on Wednesday.

The motion by River Heights-Fort Garry Coun. John Orlikow to "continue the practice of erecting barricades at key access points to the Sunday/holiday bicycle routes to remind motorists that vehicle traffic is prohibited on these routes," was passed unanimously.

Orlikow, whose ward includes the Sunday/holiday cycling route on Wellington Crescent, wrote on his website that he will be "working with Public Works to have the barricades back up, in particular at the Maryland Street Bridge and coming out of Assiniboine Park, as quickly as possible."

​The city was pushed to take a second look at the new signs put up along the bike route after increasingly loud calls and reports of fights breaking out between cyclists and drivers.