An effort is under way to create a multi-use path connecting Barrington High School to the East Bay Bike Path.

The new multi-use path will run from the southern edge of the high school campus near the Lincoln Avenue tennis courts, past the lower part of Landfill Four, through the woods surrounding Prince’s Pond, and emerge along Foote Street. 

The path will then travel past Chianese Park on Prince’s Hill Avenue, cross over Maple Avenue and merge with the East Bay Bike Path.

At its May 1 meeting, the Barrington Town Council voted unanimously to approve a bid from an engineering firm to develop plans for the multi-use paths. The bid, from Lincoln-based Pare Corp. for $21,200, also includes plans for a multi-use path connecting the trails at Landfill Three with Upland Way.

Barrington Town Council President Carl Kustell said he viewed the new paths as improvements to public safety in town. 

Pare Corp. serves as the town’s on-call engineering consultants. The firm submitted the proposal at the town’s request, according to a memo from Barrington Town Manager Phil Hervey to members of the Town Council.

Pare officials are expected to attend the Barrington Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee meeting this month and receive additional information on the project. 

“Members of BPAC (Bike and Pedestrian Advisory Committee) have already walked the area to assess existing conditions,” Hervey wrote to the Council.

Funding for the project will come from $4 million in unspent money from the Barrington Middle School construction bond. That money was earlier released to the town for bike and pedestrian infrastructure improvements.