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Downtown Ottawa could soon see its second segregated bike lane.

The city’s transportation committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a plan to build a 2.5-kilometre, north-south cycling spine on O’Connor Street between Wellington Street and Fifth Avenue.

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The $4-million plan, if approved by council next week, would be built in two stages. The first section, from Laurier Avenue to Fifth Avenue, will begin next year in conjunction with the scheduled resurfacing of O’Connor.

The section between Wellington and Laurier wouldn’t happen until 2018 at the earliest because the city wants to avoid construction in the downtown core during celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation in 2017.

Transportation committee chair Keith Egli said the success of the four-year-old segregated bike lanes on Laurier Avenue West likely helped the proposed O’Connor plan pass with little public opposition.