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The KVR Trail through Kaleden.

Longstanding plans to improve the Kettle Valley Rail trail through Pioneer Park in Kaleden are finally set to go ahead.

On Thursday, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen approved spending more than $38,000 to complete a section of the KVR trail through the community, which for years has been tough for cyclists to navigate.

Area D director Tom Siddon said a walkway will be built where cyclists will have to walk their bikes over the section of the trail. The funding being used is gas tax funds left over from a project to improve the Pioneer Park parking lot in 2016.

The RDOS first applied to the province for a tenure over Crown land to do the work more than six years ago.

The trail completion is part of a series of long-term upgrades the regional district is planning at the Skaha Lake waterfront in Kaleden.