The Wareham Community Bike Path will be the subject of a public hearing to be held on June 24 at 6 p.m. at the Minot Forest Elementary School.

The hearing is an opportunity for people to learn about the project and provide input or show support.

The proposed project will build a bike lane on Narrows Road from Sandwich Road to Indian Neck Road, then an off-road path on the southerly side of Minot Avenue from Indian Neck Road to the intersection at Great Neck Road.

When this section is complete there will be direct bike path access from the center of Wareham to Onset. The Wareham pathway will ultimately join the Bourne pathway on the canal and the proposed pathway in Marion, part of the South Coast Bikeway.

Bike Path Committee members have said that a positive hearing will allow the project to move to the next stage of funding commitment and that this is an important and a long awaited milestone for the project.